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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] net: make neigh tables per netns
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:33:49 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:09:30 -0700

> From: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
> 
> Different net namespaces have different devices, routes, neighbours,
> so their neigh table should be separated as well. This patch makes
> gloable arp_tbl and nd_tbl etc. be per netns.
> 
> Also, as we don't support multiple tables per family, there is no
> point to make tables chained by linked list, they can just be
> statically compiled. This will eliminate the global neigh_tbl_lock.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> Cc: stephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Eric and any other networking namespace experts, please review this.

Thanks.