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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:36:42 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> CC: Ulrich Weber <ulrich.weber@...hos.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sctp: fix compile issue with disabled CONFIG_NET_NS On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 11:58 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ulrich Weber <ulrich.weber@...hos.com> writes: > > > struct seq_net_private has no struct net > > if CONFIG_NET_NS is not enabled > > My mistake. > > Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber <ulrich.weber@...hos.com> > > Ulrich do you get any performance advantage by disabling the network > namespace? > > I am wondering if there is any benefit to keeping it possible to disable > the network namespace? > > The original reason for the option was so that distributions and > other who wanted to avoid new code could protect their users, and > that reasons seems to have long since passed. [...] Network namespaces are now used by common applications such as Chrome/ Chromium and vsftpd (which flushed out some of the early implementation problems). They undoubtedly have some overhead that some users would like to avoid, but I wouldn't expect distributions to disable the option. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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