Linux Kernel Network Stack Integration - Revision history

Mathieu.lacage at 14:55, 24 March 2008

2008-03-24T14:55:42Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 14:55, 24 March 2008
Line 7:		Line 7:
	One might be able to take advantage of the recent work on Linux network namespace (to support virtualization):		One might be able to take advantage of the recent work on Linux network namespace (to support virtualization):
	* http://lwn.net/Articles/219597/		* http://lwn.net/Articles/219597/
			* http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network.php

	Related to this is the project OpenVZ on lightweight network stack virtualization for Linux:		Related to this is the project OpenVZ on lightweight network stack virtualization for Linux:
Line 20:		Line 21:

	In the long run, perhaps this project can provide suggestions to the Linux kernel developers on how to better support simulation environments (in addition to virtualization).		In the long run, perhaps this project can provide suggestions to the Linux kernel developers on how to better support simulation environments (in addition to virtualization).

			There have been a few inquiries about this project on our ns-developers mailing-list so, the threads below might answer your questions:
			* http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-March/003830.html
			* http://mailman.isi.edu/pipermail/ns-developers/2008-March/003834.html

Tomh: add toc

2008-03-23T12:12:42Z

add toc

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:12, 23 March 2008
Line 1:		Line 1:
			{{TOC}}

	Here are some references and notes regarding the linux kernel network stack integration:		Here are some references and notes regarding the linux kernel network stack integration:

Tomh: Linux kernel page

2008-03-23T12:12:10Z

Linux kernel page

New page

Here are some references and notes regarding the linux kernel network stack integration:

The [http://www.nsnam.org/gsoc.html#performance web site] description lists the goals for this project; namely, to integrate well with our existing architecture and to minimize the coding changes to the kernel code itself (so that multiple kernel versions can more easily be supported).

One might be able to take advantage of the recent work on Linux network namespace (to support virtualization):
* http://lwn.net/Articles/219597/

Related to this is the project OpenVZ on lightweight network stack virtualization for Linux:
* http://openvz.org/

Sam Jansen's Network Simulation Cradle work focused on TCP code portability (from Linux and elsewhere), and provided some tools for changing scope of global variables to local (the "globalizer").
* http://research.wand.net.nz/software/nsc.php

Some people have also done work along these lines in FreeBSD:
* Lightweight virtual machines: IMUNES project (http://www.tel.fer.hr/imunes/)
* The OppBSD project: (http://www.omnetpp.org/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.OppBSD)
* Alpine (user-space network stack implementation): (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251455)

In the long run, perhaps this project can provide suggestions to the Linux kernel developers on how to better support simulation environments (in addition to virtualization).