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

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Message-ID: <20091113153924.6130135f@nehalam>
Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:39:24 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca>
Cc:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>,
	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 18:35:04 -0500
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:49:37PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Then maybe network devices aren't the right layering model. At some
> > point the paradigm has to be re-examined.
> 
> What is the right model for dealing with lots of connections to users and 
> routes?  This problem isn't going to go away given the increases in 
> connectivity and processing power that happen each year.  Today, software 
> routing of 10Gbps links is a reality -- part of what comes with that ability 
> of hardware is the need to deal with the fact that 10Gbps aggregates a lot 
> of users.
> 
> 		-ben

Well TCP handles lots of connections, but a socket has different overhead
than a network device. Why should 10Gbps need 10K PPPoE sessions?
Even Vlan's are less overhead than PPP

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