From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:14:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m139t0jxud.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285240926.5036.7.camel@bigi> (jamal's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:22:06 -0400")
jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 01:51 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Take advantage of the new abstraction and allow network devices
>> to be placed in any network namespace that we have a fd to talk
>> about.
>>
>
> So ... why just netdevice? could you allow migration of other
> net "items" eg a route table since they are all tagged by
> netns?
For this patchset because we only support migrating physical
network devices between network namespaces today.
In the bigger picture migrating things between network namespaces is
race prone. Fixing those races probably would reduce network stack
performance and increase code complexity for not particularly good
reason. Network devices are special because they are physical hardware
and in combination with the rule that all packets coming a network
device go to a single network namespace we have to implement migration
for network devices.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-23 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 8:45 [ABI REVIEW][PATCH 0/8] Namespace file descriptors Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:46 ` [PATCH 1/8] ns: proc files for namespace naming policy Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:46 ` [PATCH 2/8] ns: Introduce the setns syscall Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:47 ` [PATCH 3/8] ns proc: Add support for the network namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 11:27 ` Louis Rilling
2010-09-23 16:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:48 ` [PATCH 4/8] ns proc: Add support for the uts namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:49 ` [PATCH 5/8] ns proc: Add support for the ipc namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:50 ` [PATCH 6/8] ns proc: Add support for the mount namespace Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:51 ` [PATCH 7/8] net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 9:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-23 16:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 11:22 ` jamal
2010-09-23 14:58 ` David Lamparter
2010-09-24 11:51 ` jamal
2010-09-24 12:57 ` David Lamparter
2010-09-24 13:32 ` jamal
2010-09-24 14:09 ` David Lamparter
2010-09-24 14:16 ` jamal
2010-09-23 15:14 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-09-23 14:22 ` Brian Haley
2010-09-23 16:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-24 13:46 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-09-23 8:51 ` [PATCH 8/8] net: Implement socketat Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 8:56 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-09-23 11:19 ` jamal
2010-09-23 11:33 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-09-23 11:40 ` jamal
2010-09-23 11:53 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-09-23 12:11 ` jamal
2010-09-23 12:34 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-09-23 14:54 ` David Lamparter
2010-09-23 15:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-02 21:13 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-10-03 13:44 ` jamal
2010-10-04 10:13 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-10-04 19:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-15 12:30 ` netns patches WAS( " jamal
2010-10-26 20:52 ` jamal
2010-10-27 0:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 15:18 ` [ABI REVIEW][PATCH 0/8] Namespace file descriptors David Lamparter
2010-09-23 16:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-09-23 16:49 ` David Lamparter
2010-09-24 13:02 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2010-09-24 13:49 ` Daniel Lezcano
2010-09-24 17:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
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