From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5 (resend)] net: Allow to create links with given ifindex
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:14:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344345266.28967.91.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5020F58C.8070605@parallels.com>
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 15:01 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Currently the RTM_NEWLINK results in -EOPNOTSUPP if the ifinfomsg->ifi_index
> is not zero. I propose to allow requesting ifindices on link creation. This
> is required by the checkpoint-restore to correctly restore a net namespace
> (i.e. -- a container).
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-06 14:13 [PATCH net-next 0/6] Per-net and on-demand link indices (and related) v2 Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-06 14:13 ` [PATCH 1/6] hash: Introduce ptr_hash_mix routine Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-06 20:44 ` David Miller
2012-08-07 9:11 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 9:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-07 9:55 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 10:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-07 21:39 ` David Miller
2012-08-06 14:14 ` [PATCH 2/6] net: Dont use ifindices in hash fns Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-06 14:14 ` [PATCH 3/6] net: Allow to create links with given ifindex Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 11:01 ` [PATCH 2/5 (resend)] " Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 13:14 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-08-07 21:42 ` David Miller
2012-08-06 14:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] veth: Allow to create peer link " Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/5 (resend)] " Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 13:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-07 18:36 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-08 9:00 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-08 13:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-08 13:38 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-06 14:14 ` [PATCH 5/6] net: Make ifindex generation per-net namespace Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 11:02 ` [PATCH 4/5 (resend)] " Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 12:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-07 12:37 ` [PATCH 4/5 (resend)] net: Make ifindex generation per-net namespace (v2) Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 13:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-06 14:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] net: Loopback ifindex is constant now Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 11:02 ` [PATCH 5/5 (resend)] " Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-07 13:13 ` Eric Dumazet
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