netdev - RE: [PATCH v4 for-next 00/12] Add network namespace support in the RDMA-CM

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Message-ID: <6CE81A2095B0024BBC77007BD04E55384265B3B5@xmb-aln-x02.cisco.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 17:55:57 +0000
From:	"Christian Benvenuti (benve)" <benve@...co.com>
To:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Haggai Eran <haggaie@...lanox.com>
CC:	"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Liran Liss <liranl@...lanox.com>,
	Guy Shapiro <guysh@...lanox.com>,
	Shachar Raindel <raindel@...lanox.com>,
	Yotam Kenneth <yotamke@...lanox.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 for-next 00/12] Add network namespace support in the
 RDMA-CM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of Doug Ledford
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:35 AM
> To: Haggai Eran
> Cc: linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Liran Liss; Guy
> Shapiro; Shachar Raindel; Yotam Kenneth
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 for-next 00/12] Add network namespace support in the
> RDMA-CM

...

> I don't think this is an issue for usNIC as if you
> want namespace support there, you just start the user space app in a given
> namespace and you are probably 90% of the way there since the user space
> application gets its own device and so its own MAC/IP and all of the RDMA
> transfers are UDP, so the application's namespace should get inherited by all
> the rest, but Cisco would need to confirm that, hence why I say 90% of the way
> there, it needs confirmed).

This is correct. 

Thanks
/Chris