From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca>
Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>,
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 14:49:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113144937.23693bb4@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091113224043.GP19478@kvack.org>
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:40:43 -0500
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > 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.
>
> He's not the only one who needs that, I certainly do. BRAS application
> where traffic is being aggregated (ie PPPoE and L2TP servers) from lots of
> customers requires it. There are also people hitting the same scaling
> issues in embedded PPPoE on wireless networks.
>
> -ben
Then maybe network devices aren't the right layering model. At some
point the paradigm has to be re-examined.
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 22:49 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
2009-11-13 22:40 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 22:49 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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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