My planned work on networking stack (vimage)

[Max Khon]

Hello!

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:13:05PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> The patch set is pretty extensive and intrusive and only for 4.x.  Adding
> locking for 5.x would be a pretty nice challenge as well and not easy to
> get right for all cases.
> 
> > This is one thing that I would like to use, without patching systems. But
> > then thats just my 'wish list' opinion of it.
> 
> I think is makes more sense to get something like userland BSD.

Userland BSD might need too many resources.
Think of hosting providers who run hundreds or thousands of virtual hosts
in a jail. Please take a look at commercial solutions like FreeVPS by H-Sphere
or Virtuozzo by SWSoft.

Virtualized network stack is not an academic-research only feature.

/fjoe