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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:56:15 -0700
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To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
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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?
>   
For what it's worth, I don't prefer this way as I can see wanting to 
have one application
use several namespaces at once....

Thanks,
Ben

> Thanks,
> Kirill
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