From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:15:34 -0600
> > This is the basic infrastructure needed to support network > namespaces. This infrastructure is: > - Registration functions to support initializing per network > namespace data when a network namespaces is created or destroyed. > > - struct net. The network namespace data structure. > This structure will grow as variables are made per network > namespace but this is the minimal starting point. > > - Functions to grab a reference to the network namespace. > I provide both get/put functions that keep a network namespace > from being freed. And hold/release functions serve as weak references > and will warn if their count is not zero when the data structure > is freed. Useful for dealing with more complicated data structures > like the ipv4 route cache. > > - A list of all of the network namespaces so we can iterate over them. > > - A slab for the network namespace data structure allowing leaks > to be spotted. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I realize there are some discussions about naming and fixing some races, but I applied this anyways so we can make some forward progress. We can make name changes and fixes on top of this initial work. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
