netdev - Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace

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Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:48:16 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace

Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Currently indexes for netdevices come sequentially one by
> one, and the same stays true even for devices that are 
> created for namespaces.
> 
> Side effects of this are:
>  * lo device has not 1 index in a namespace. This may break
>    some userspace that relies on it (and AFAIR something
>    really broke in OpenVZ VEs without this);
>  * after some time namespaces will have devices with indexes
>    like 1000000 os similar. This might be confusing for a
>    human (tools will not mind).
> 
> So move the (currently "global" and static) ifindex variable
> on the struct net, making the indexes allocation look more
> like on a standalone machine.
> 
> Moreover - when we have indexes intersect between namespaces,
> we may catch more BUGs in the future related to "wrong device 
> was found for a given index".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Applied and tested against netns49. Works fine.

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>

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