Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:21:16 +0100

Benny Amorsen a écrit :
> Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Then maybe network devices aren't the right layering model. At some
>> point the paradigm has to be re-examined.
> 
> I'm not quite sure where this becomes a problem. We have 1185 network
> interfaces (VLAN's) on one box. Boot time is a problem, but other than
> that it works ok. If something like this would help speed up booting,
> that would be very nice.
> 

It would be very nice if you tell us why booting is very long,
ie what is done and how much time it takes.

It's clear that ~1000 vlans is quite reasonable :)