[Devel] Re: Network virtualization/isolation

[Herbert Poetzl]

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 

> I could send network devices virtualization patches for
> review and discussion.

that won't hurt ...

best,
Herbert

> What do you think?
> 
> > The approaches discussed for L2 and L3 are sufficiently orthogonal
> > that we can implement then in either order.  You would need to
> > unshare L3 to unshare L2, but if we think of them as two separate
> > namespaces we are likely to be in better shape.
> >
> > The L3 discussion still has the problem that there has not been
> > agreement on all of the semantics yet.
> >
> > More comments after I get some sleep.
> >
> > Eric
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> -- 
> Thanks,
> Dmitry.
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