Lucid SRU - UBUNTU: SAUCE: netns: Add quota for number of NET_NS instances.

[Brad Figg]

On 12/01/2011 01:48 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Please consider this (untested) patch for inclusion in Lucid. See the discussion in http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790863 for arguments proposing to restore CONFIG_NET_NS.
>
> I'll post a test kernel to the bug in awhile.
>
> One of the issues I have with this patch is that it appears that any consumer of network name spaces will have to initially write a non-zero value to netns_max before _any_ name spaces can be successfully allocated. If copy_net_ns() fails in
> create_new_namespaces(), then it seems the whole allocation is buggered.
>
> rtg
>
>

Tim,

If you follow the thread that starts at:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg180263.html
you will see that Tetsuo actually proposed a modified
version of this patch: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg180360.html.

Brad
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