Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/6] net: reducing memory footprint of network devices

2017-05-09 Thread David Ahern
On 5/9/17 2:50 AM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > Your initial patch tried to make those interfaces transparent, this is not the > case anymore here. It would probably be useful to be able to filter those > interfaces in the kernel during a dump. The earlier email was for hidden devices; the intent ther

Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/6] net: reducing memory footprint of network devices

2017-05-09 Thread Nicolas Dichtel
Le 08/05/2017 à 19:35, Florian Fainelli a écrit : > On 05/06/2017 09:07 AM, David Ahern wrote: >> As I have mentioned many times[1], at ~43+kB per instance the use of >> net_devices does not scale for deployments needing 10,000+ devices. At >> netconf 1.2 there was a discussion about using a net_de

Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/6] net: reducing memory footprint of network devices

2017-05-08 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 05/06/2017 09:07 AM, David Ahern wrote: > As I have mentioned many times[1], at ~43+kB per instance the use of > net_devices does not scale for deployments needing 10,000+ devices. At > netconf 1.2 there was a discussion about using a net_device_common for > the minimal set of common attributes

[PATCH RFC net-next 0/6] net: reducing memory footprint of network devices

2017-05-06 Thread David Ahern
As I have mentioned many times[1], at ~43+kB per instance the use of net_devices does not scale for deployments needing 10,000+ devices. At netconf 1.2 there was a discussion about using a net_device_common for the minimal set of common attributes with other structs built on top of that one for "fu