Re: [RFC] [patch 5/6] [Network namespace] ipv4 isolation

[James Morris]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, dlezcano@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> When an outgoing packet has the loopback destination addres, the
> skbuff is filled with the network namespace. So the loopback packets
> never go outside the namespace. This approach facilitate the migration
> of loopback because identification is done by network namespace and
> not by address. The loopback has been benchmarked by tbench and the
> overhead is roughly 1.5 %

I think you'll need to make it so this code has zero impact when not 
configured.


- James
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James Morris
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