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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, tgraf@suug.ch,
	alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] route: allow to route in a peer netns via lwt framework
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:20:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438183251.20182.93.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438175774-4408-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 15:16 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> This patch takes advantage of the newly added lwtunnel framework to
> allow the user to set routes that point to a peer netns.
> 
> Packets are injected to the peer netns via the loopback device. It works
> only when the output device is 'lo'.
> 
> Example:
> ip route add 40.1.1.1/32 encap netns nsid 5 via dev lo
> 
> The goal is to be scalable when the number of netns is high (10k or more).
> Which this patch, we can save two interfaces (veth) per netns, which helps
> to to reduce memory consumption and the time needed to create a netns.


Really this is a hack Nicolas.

get_net_ns_by_id() was not meant to be used in data (fast ???) path.

Same for get_net() and put_net()

Plumbing like that should not happen in lo start_xmit()

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-29 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23 14:22 [PATCH net-next] route: allow to route in a peer netns via lwt framework Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-23 15:01 ` roopa
2015-07-23 15:25   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-23 15:50     ` roopa
2015-07-24 12:24       ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-24 13:50         ` roopa
2015-07-24 14:11           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-24 14:16     ` [PATCH net-next v2] " Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-24 15:39       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-24 16:27         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-07-27 19:56         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-29 13:16           ` [PATCH net-next v3] " Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-29 15:20             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2015-07-29 21:17               ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-24 14:28 ` [PATCH net-next] " David Ahern
2015-07-24 14:32   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-07-24 15:19     ` David Ahern
2015-07-27 20:07       ` Nicolas Dichtel

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