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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:45:33 +0200
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Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>   
>>
>>
>> I believe OpenVZ stores the current namespace somewhere global,
>> which avoids passing the namespace around. Couldn't you do this
>> as well?
>>     
>
> yes, we store a global namespace context on current
> (can be stored in per-cpu as well).
>
> do you prefer this way?

I'm not sure, it would avoid passing it around everywhere, but I'd
expect it to be harder to review because you can't simply follow it
as it gets passed around.