netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20091113142939.35879efe@s6510>
Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:29:39 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:51:31 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com> wrote:

> For us the usecase is creating interfaces that get used by applications that 
> generate all sorts of traffic. This allows us to simulate realistic end user 
> traffic (e.g. coming from a full blown stack). That sounds reasonable to us :)

So it is lots of pseudo-devices for a special purpose test machine.
That's great use of Linux, but not a case worth optimizing for in the mainline kernel.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html