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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca>,
	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:21:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFE5A6C.2030301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r5s1bn3f.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk>

Benny Amorsen a écrit :
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> writes:
> 
>> Then maybe network devices aren't the right layering model. At some
>> point the paradigm has to be re-examined.
> 
> I'm not quite sure where this becomes a problem. We have 1185 network
> interfaces (VLAN's) on one box. Boot time is a problem, but other than
> that it works ok. If something like this would help speed up booting,
> that would be very nice.
> 

It would be very nice if you tell us why booting is very long,
ie what is done and how much time it takes.

It's clear that ~1000 vlans is quite reasonable :)



  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-14  7:21 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
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 [this message]
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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