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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 15:39:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113153924.6130135f@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091113233504.GQ19478@kvack.org>

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:35:04 -0500
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:49:37PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Then maybe network devices aren't the right layering model. At some
> > point the paradigm has to be re-examined.
> 
> What is the right model for dealing with lots of connections to users and 
> routes?  This problem isn't going to go away given the increases in 
> connectivity and processing power that happen each year.  Today, software 
> routing of 10Gbps links is a reality -- part of what comes with that ability 
> of hardware is the need to deal with the fact that 10Gbps aggregates a lot 
> of users.
> 
> 		-ben

Well TCP handles lots of connections, but a socket has different overhead
than a network device. Why should 10Gbps need 10K PPPoE sessions?
Even Vlan's are less overhead than PPP

-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-13 23:39 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
2009-11-13 23:35               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 23:39                 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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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