Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
David Laight writes: > From: Eric W. Biederman >> Sent: 25 July 2018 18:38 > ... >> >> Further unless I misread something you are increasing the number of >> >> timers to 3 per namespace. If I create create a thousand network >> >> namespaces that feels like it will hurt system performance overa

Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
David Ahern writes: > On 7/25/18 11:38 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Absolutely NOT. Global thresholds are exactly correct given the fact >> you are running on a single kernel. >> >> Memory is not free (Even though we are swimming in enough of it memory >> rarely matters). One of the few

Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-25 Thread David Ahern
On 7/24/18 11:14 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: David Ahern > Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:14:01 -0600 > >> I get the impression there is no longer a strong resistance against >> moving the tables to per namespace, but deciding what is the right >> approach to handle backwards compatibility. Correc

Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-25 Thread David Ahern
On 7/25/18 11:38 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Absolutely NOT. Global thresholds are exactly correct given the fact > you are running on a single kernel. > > Memory is not free (Even though we are swimming in enough of it memory > rarely matters). One of the few remaining challenges is for c

Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
David Ahern writes: > On 7/25/18 6:33 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Cong Wang writes: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:14 AM David Ahern wrote: On 7/19/18 11:12 AM, Cong Wang wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM David Ahern wrote: >> >> Chatting with Nikolay about

Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-25 Thread David Ahern
On 7/25/18 6:33 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Cong Wang writes: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:14 AM David Ahern wrote: >>> >>> On 7/19/18 11:12 AM, Cong Wang wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM David Ahern wrote: > > Chatting with Nikolay about this and he brought up a good co

Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-25 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Cong Wang writes: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:14 AM David Ahern wrote: >> >> On 7/19/18 11:12 AM, Cong Wang wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM David Ahern wrote: >> >> >> >> Chatting with Nikolay about this and he brought up a good corollary - ip >> >> fragmentation. It really is a sim

Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT net-next 00/17] net: Convert neighbor tables to per-namespace

2018-07-19 Thread Cong Wang
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:16 AM David Ahern wrote: > > Chatting with Nikolay about this and he brought up a good corollary - ip > fragmentation. It really is a similar problem in that memory is consumed > as a result of packets received from an external entity. The ipfrag > sysctls are per namespa