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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Subject: Re: Performance problem in network namespaces
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 11:48:11 +0200
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Mart=C3=ADn Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com> writes:

> When running some benchmarks to test the feasibility of using
> namespaces for emulating networks, I have found a big drop in
> performance when one of the namespaces is performing routing of
> packets.

Is this problem specific to vnet, or do the other types of interfaces
suffer from it as well? (phys, vlan, macvlan...)


/Benny