From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:21:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4AFE5A6C.2030301@gmail.com> References: <200911130701.14847.opurdila@ixiacom.com> <4AFCF8D3.6090905@gmail.com> <20091112222608.79d90e9e@nehalam> <200911131151.31677.opurdila@ixiacom.com> <20091113142939.35879efe@s6510> <20091113224043.GP19478@kvack.org> <20091113144937.23693bb4@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Benjamin LaHaise , Octavian Purdila , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Benny Amorsen Return-path: Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:53342 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752758AbZKNHVU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:21:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Benny Amorsen a =E9crit : > Stephen Hemminger writes: >=20 >> Then maybe network devices aren't the right layering model. At some >> point the paradigm has to be re-examined. >=20 > 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 tha= n > that it works ok. If something like this would help speed up booting, > that would be very nice. >=20 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 :)