From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dlezcano@fr.ibm.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, benjamin.thery@bull.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-2.6.25 0/5][NETNS][IPV6] discriminate inet6 addresses per namespace
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:45:06 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110.224506.10672625.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080110180240.517524760@fr.ibm.com>
From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:02:40 +0100
> The inet6_addr_lst hash table contains the configured addresses
> for the ipv6 protocol on the system.
>
> With the network namespace, we have 2 solutions:
> * make this hash table per namespace
> * keep a global hash table and discard addresses not belonging
> to the network namespace
>
> This patchset use the second method. It will use less memory, but
> can be a less efficient in case of a lot of containers.
>
> The code is changed to have the network namespace parameter for the
> different functions, if we change our mind during an intense usage
> of the network namespace, the switch to a hash table per namespace
> is really easy to do and will not change the new api again.
All 5 patches applied, thanks.
parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-11 6:45 UTC|newest]
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