From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
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 17:40:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113224043.GP19478@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091113142939.35879efe@s6510>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 22:40 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 [this message]
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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