Subject: Re: Multiqueue and virtualization WAS(Re: [PATCH 3/3] NET: [SCHED] Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue

From: James Chapman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:59:58 +0100

jamal wrote:
> If the issue is usability of listing 1024 netdevices, i can think of
> many ways to resolve it.
> One way we can resolve the listing is with a simple tag to the netdev
> struct i could say "list netdevices for guest 0-10" etc etc.

This would be a useful feature, not only for virtualization. I've seen 
some boxes with thousands of net devices (mostly ppp, but also some 
ATM). It would be nice to be able to assign a tag to an arbitrary set of 
devices.

Does the network namespace stuff help with any of this?

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James Chapman
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