[RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure

[Eric W. Biederman]

Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net> writes:

>>>>Depending upon the data structure it will either be modified to hold
>>>>a per entry network namespace pointer or it there will be a separate
>>>>copy per network namespace.  For large global data structures like
>>>>the ipv4 routing cache hash table adding an additional pointer to the
>>>>entries appears the more reasonable solution.
>>>
>>>
>>>So the routing cache is shared between all namespaces?
>> 
>> 
>> Yes.  Each namespaces has it's own view so semantically it's not
>> shared.  But the initial fan out of the hash table 2M or something
>> isn't something we want to replicate on a per namespace basis even
>> assuming the huge page allocations could happen.
>> 
>> So we just tag the entries and add the network namespace as one more
>> part of the key when doing hash table look ups.
>
>
> I can wait for the patches, but I would be interested in how
> GC is performed and whether limits can be configured per
> namespace.

Currently I believe the gc code is unmodified in my patches.

Currently I have been focusing on the normal semantics and just
making something work in a mergeable fashion.

Limits and the like are comparatively easy to add in after the
rest is working so I haven't been focusing on that.

Eric