Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] iproute: Faster ip link add, set and delete

From: Serge Hallyn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:20:46 -0500

Quoting Eric W. Biederman ([email-masked]):
> Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > If you need to do lots of operations the --batch mode will be significantly faster.
> > One command start and one link map.
> 
> The problem in this case as I understand it is lots of independent
> operations. Now maybe lxc should not shell out to ip and perform the
> work itself.

fwiw lxc uses netlink to create new veths, and picks random names with
mktemp() ahead of time.

-serge