netdev - Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

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Message-ID: <467D7E0D.7060206@candelatech.com>
Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:09:49 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Will we be able to have a single application be in multiple name-spaces?
>>     
>
> A single application certainly.   But then an application can be composed
> of multiple processes which can be composed of multiple threads.
>
> In my current patches a single task_struct belongs to a single network
> namespace.  That namespace is used when creating sockets.  The sockets
> themselves have a namespace tag and that is used when transmitting
> packets, or otherwise operating on the socket.
>
> So if you pass a socket from one process to another you can have
> sockets that belong to different network namespaces in a single task.
>   
Any chance it could allow one to use a single threaded, single process 
and do something like
int fd1 = socket(...., namespace1);
int fd2 = socket(...., namespace2);

Or, maybe a sockopt or similar call to move a socket into a particular 
namespace?

I can certainly see it being useful to allow a default name-space per 
process, but it would be nice
to also allow explicit assignment of a socket to a name-space for 
applications that want to span
a large number of name-spaces.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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