netdev - Re: [patch net-2.6.25 0/5][NETNS][IPV6] discriminate inet6 addresses per namespace

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Message-Id: <20080110.224506.10672625.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:45:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlezcano@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, benjamin.thery@...l.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-2.6.25 0/5][NETNS][IPV6] discriminate inet6
 addresses per namespace

From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:02:40 +0100

> The inet6_addr_lst hash table contains the configured addresses 
> for the ipv6 protocol on the system.
> 
> With the network namespace, we have 2 solutions:
>  * make this hash table per namespace
>  * keep a global hash table and discard addresses not belonging
>    to the network namespace
> 
> This patchset use the second method. It will use less memory, but
> can be a less efficient in case of a lot of containers.
> 
> The code is changed to have the network namespace parameter for the
> different functions, if we change our mind during an intense usage
> of the network namespace, the switch to a hash table per namespace
> is really easy to do and will not change the new api again.

All 5 patches applied, thanks.
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