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net: introduce per-netns netdevice notifiers
authorJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:15:10 +0000 (10:15 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:48:44 +0000 (11:48 -0400)
commita30c7b429f2dd980202c912fcb76442364937b4d
tree4537260b19131102d96cab06268e89ed7ae052c5tree | snapshot
parentafa0df5998131153ec3036f41e76ece33bf1334fcommit | diff
net: introduce per-netns netdevice notifiers

Often the code for example in drivers is interested in getting notifier
call only from certain network namespace. In addition to the existing
global netdevice notifier chain introduce per-netns chains and allow
users to register to that. Eventually this would eliminate unnecessary
overhead in case there are many netdevices in many network namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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