Herbert Poetzl <herbert at 13thfloor.at> writes: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:19:00PM +0300, Dmitry Mishin wrote: >> On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:00, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> > Ok. Just a quick summary of where I see the discussion. >> > >> > We all agree that L2 isolation is needed at some point. > >> As we all agreed on this, may be it is time to send patches >> one-by-one? For the beggining, I propose to resend Cedric's >> empty namespace patch as base for others - it is really empty, >> but necessary in order to move further. >> >> After this patch and the following net namespace unshare >> patch will be accepted, > > well, I have neither seen any performance tests showing > that the following is true: > > - no change on network performance without the > space enabled > - no change on network performance on the host > with the network namespaces enabled > - no measureable overhead inside the network > namespace > - good scaleability for a larger number of network > namespaces Yes all important criteria for selecting the implementation. Eric
