From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Ahern Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 0/5] netns: allow to identify peer netns Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:56:16 -0600 Message-ID: <5425D2F0.2050207@gmail.com> References: <1411478430-4989-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <54228D87.3070309@6wind.com> <5422F0F4.6000709@6wind.com> <5423D80B.9060500@6wind.com> <54256CCB.4000709@6wind.com> <5425BB3E.10700@gmail.com> <87mw9myy4n.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <5425C22F.7050301@gmail.com> <87tx3uun4q.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Cong Wang , containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Andy Lutomirski , Stephen Hemminger , netdev , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, nicolas.dichtel-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, David Miller To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87tx3uun4q.fsf-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 9/26/14, 2:45 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ah. You are talking about a system with 2k namespaces and 20-50 > services providing services in all 2k namespaces. Something completely > different than the case of quagga you mentioned earlier. Not at all. The earlier quagga example was a starting point on the bigger topic -- inefficiencies of namespaces as VRFs. In all of the products I have worked on there is always more than 1 service running on the system. > But again this has nothing do with the peer netns work. So if you have > something practical to contribute please start a new thread. Sure, I'll start a new thread. Thanks, David