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Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:59:58 +0100
From:	James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kaber@...sh.net,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com
Subject: Re: Multiqueue and virtualization WAS(Re: [PATCH 3/3] NET: [SCHED]
 Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue

jamal wrote:
> If the issue is usability of listing 1024 netdevices, i can think of
> many ways to resolve it.
> One way we can resolve the listing is with a simple tag to the netdev
> struct i could say "list netdevices for guest 0-10" etc etc.

This would be a useful feature, not only for virtualization. I've seen 
some boxes with thousands of net devices (mostly ppp, but also some 
ATM). It would be nice to be able to assign a tag to an arbitrary set of 
devices.

Does the network namespace stuff help with any of this?

-- 
James Chapman
Katalix Systems Ltd
http://www.katalix.com
Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development

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