netdev - [PATCH v3 0/2] net: add device groups

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Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:38:29 +0200
From:	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>,
	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] net: add device groups

This patchset implements network device grouping and simple manipulation
of groups. Netlink has been updated to provide group information and
means of applying changes to members of a specific group via a single
message.

The patchset has a corresponding one for iproute2, which implements the
new functionality in userspace.

Some basic testing, using 1024 dummy network interfaces (all of them in
group 0):

# time { for i in `seq 0 1023`; do ip l s dev dummy$i up; done }

real	0m7.70s
user	0m0.36s
sys	0m4.85s

# time ip l s devgroup 0 up

real	0m0.14s
user	0m0.00s
sys	0m0.14s

# time { for i in `seq 0 1023`; do ip l s dev dummy$i mtu 2000; done }

real	0m7.43s
user	0m0.48s
sys	0m4.72s

# time ip l s devgroup 0 mtu 2000

real	0m0.02s
user	0m0.00s
sys	0m0.02s

Improvement stems both from less user-kernel communication and from less
processes being created.

Changes since version 2:
 * fix net_device field type (should be int, not unsigned int).
 * fix typo in commit message.

Changes since version 1:
 * we avoid adding a new attribute type by using the following
   convention: if no device name is specified, the interface index is
   negative, and there is a group specified, we change parameters for
   the whole group.
 * the dummy module is no longer modified to include an initial group
   for the devices it creates. The user is responsible for moving them
   to a different group by means of the provided netlink interface.

Vlad Dogaru (2):
  net_device: add support for network device groups
  netlink: support setting devgroup parameters

 include/linux/if_link.h   |    1 +
 include/linux/netdevice.h |    7 +++++++
 net/core/dev.c            |   12 ++++++++++++
 net/core/rtnetlink.c      |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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