linux-kernel - Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:10:16 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mst@....mellanox.co.il, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:


> I think the thing to do is to just leave the loopback references
> in place, try to unregister the per-namespace loopback device,
> and that will safely wait for all the references to go away.

Right.  The only thing I have found that needs to be changed so
far in this area is specifying which loopback device I want
to replace it with.

> If you do it that way, you should need absolutely no changes to
> the other code in this area.
>
> As per Herbert, I think he works on Xen rather than vserver :-)
> Perhaps you're thinking of Alexey Kuznetsov or another one of the
> vserver guys.

I think you are thinking of a different Herbert.  I was thinking of
Herbert Poetzl the vserver maintainer.  Alexey works on OpenVZ.

Until we get the basic architecture merged they are rival projects.

Eric
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