netdev - Re: Flows! Offload them.

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:38:05 -0700
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
CC:	Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, nhorman@...driver.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
	dborkman@...hat.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, jesse@...ira.com,
	jpettit@...ira.com, joestringer@...ira.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, jhs@...atatu.com, sfeldma@...il.com,
	f.fainelli@...il.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
	linville@...driver.com, shrijeet@...il.com,
	gospo@...ulusnetworks.com, bcrl@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Flows! Offload them.

On 2/26/15 6:33 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> E.g. A VRF in software would make use of net namespaces which holds
> tenant specific ACLs, routes and QoS settings. A separate action
> would fwd packets to the namespace. Easy and straight forward in
> software.

namespace == L1 separation
VRF == L3 separation

Why is there an insistence that an L1 construct is appropriate for L3 
isolation? Has anyone other than 6wind actually done a 1000+ VRFs with 
the Linux stack?

David
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