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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:29:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113142939.35879efe@s6510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911131151.31677.opurdila@ixiacom.com>

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:51:31 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> wrote:

> For us the usecase is creating interfaces that get used by applications that 
> generate all sorts of traffic. This allows us to simulate realistic end user 
> traffic (e.g. coming from a full blown stack). That sounds reasonable to us :)

So it is lots of pseudo-devices for a special purpose test machine.
That's great use of Linux, but not a case worth optimizing for in the mainline kernel.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-13 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-13  5:01 [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13  5:20 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13  6:12   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-13  6:26     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13  7:09       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-13  9:51       ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 22:29         ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-11-13 22:40           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 22:49             ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 23:35               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 23:39                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 23:52                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14  2:59                     ` David Miller
2009-11-14  6:24                       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14 22:36                       ` Mark Smith
2009-11-15  1:22                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-15  1:49                           ` Mark Smith
2009-11-15  1:55                         ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-11-15  7:48                           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-15 16:50                           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14  7:08               ` Benny Amorsen
2009-11-14  7:21                 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-14 16:16                   ` Ben Greear
2009-11-13  9:55     ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 16:40       ` Ben Greear
2009-11-14  0:04   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-14  0:14     ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-14  0:20       ` Stephen Hemminger

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