Rick Jones wrote:
Ben Greear wrote:
Rick Jones wrote:
In the realm of straw ideas, how often are netdevs added and removed,
and would leaving a tombstone behind consume too much memory?
In certain cases...say, with vlans, you could very often create and
destroy net devices. I think that giving up and leaking the memory
is not a good idea.
What makes vlans more likely to be more dynamic in that way?
They are easy to create and destroy..and in mass. You can be sure
that someone has realized this and has made a cool application
on top of this feature. If we suddenly start leaking memory to
gain a small bit of performance in the 1+Gbps speeds, then people
will be upset.
At the least, I have applications that do this..and whether they
are cool or not is open to contention, but I will certainly be upset
anyway :)
Ben
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