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From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Scaling the Number of Network Interfaces on Linux
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 12:59:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BB2634.3080500@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BB1BEB.5090200@6wind.com>

On 2/10/16 12:15 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> to follow your talk at nedev11, I already proposed some times ago a
> patch to
> remove sysctl, which was rejected. You can see the thread here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/285840

Thanks for the reference. I'll take a look.

>
> Instead of removing completly the sysctl entries, another idea could be to
> manage a group of interfaces which will share the same subtree.

This come out from a side conversation as well -- for example to have 
interfaces enslaved to a bridge or bond share the same devconf.

This is certainly possible to do and I can give it a look. The key point 
is that we clearly need a means to lighten the overhead of a network 
interface.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-10 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-10 11:15 Scaling the Number of Network Interfaces on Linux Nicolas Dichtel
2016-02-10 11:59 ` David Ahern [this message]
2016-02-10 15:12   ` Nicolas Dichtel

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