From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Chapman Subject: Re: Multiqueue and virtualization WAS(Re: [PATCH 3/3] NET: [SCHED] Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:59:58 +0100 Message-ID: <468E66FE.9070007@katalix.com> References: <1183215164.5165.13.camel@localhost> <20070630.133357.77057070.davem@davemloft.net> <1183466553.5159.51.camel@localhost> <20070703.142431.49854676.davem@davemloft.net> <1183515611.5174.34.camel@localhost> <1183707166.6005.172.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1183732755.5155.85.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rusty Russell , David Miller , kaber@trash.net, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com To: hadi@cyberus.ca Return-path: Received: from s36.avahost.net ([74.53.95.194]:47248 "EHLO s36.avahost.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754428AbXGFQAX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:00:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1183732755.5155.85.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org jamal wrote: > If the issue is usability of listing 1024 netdevices, i can think of > many ways to resolve it. > One way we can resolve the listing is with a simple tag to the netdev > struct i could say "list netdevices for guest 0-10" etc etc. This would be a useful feature, not only for virtualization. I've seen some boxes with thousands of net devices (mostly ppp, but also some ATM). It would be nice to be able to assign a tag to an arbitrary set of devices. Does the network namespace stuff help with any of this? -- James Chapman Katalix Systems Ltd http://www.katalix.com Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development