Re: L2 network namespaces + macvlan performances

2007-07-09 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 06:48:15PM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote: Following a discussion we had at OLS concerning L2 network namespace performances and how the new macvlan driver could potentially improve them, I've ported the macvlan patchset on top of Eric's net namespace patchset on

Re: L2 network namespaces + macvlan performances

2007-07-09 Thread Rick Jones
Between the normal case and the net namespace + macvlan case, results are about the same for both the throughput and the local CPU load for the following test types: TCP_MAERTS, TCP_RR, UDP_STREAM, UDP_RR. macvlan looks like a very good candidate for network namespace in these cases. But,

Re: L2 network namespaces + macvlan performances

2007-07-07 Thread Daniel Lezcano
Benjamin Thery wrote: Following a discussion we had at OLS concerning L2 network namespace performances and how the new macvlan driver could potentially improve them, I've ported the macvlan patchset on top of Eric's net namespace patchset on 2.6.22-rc4-mm2. A little bit of history: Some

L2 network namespaces + macvlan performances

2007-07-06 Thread Benjamin Thery
Following a discussion we had at OLS concerning L2 network namespace performances and how the new macvlan driver could potentially improve them, I've ported the macvlan patchset on top of Eric's net namespace patchset on 2.6.22-rc4-mm2. A little bit of history: Some months ago, when we ran some