Setting the MTU for loopback has a huge performance impact on intra-container
traffic. The loopback interface is not an ethernet interface and does not need
the same limit. with this change I see a 4x speedup for loopback throughput.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com> (github: thockin)
2. Introducing a new checkpoint file 'network.stats' which will contain the network runtime information (veth interface names for now).
3. Adding network stats to 'nsinit stats'.
4. Added a libcontainer Stats API to get both network and cgroup stats
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Vishnu Kannan <vishnuk@google.com> (github: vishh)
'namespaces' need to refactored a bit more to move the API part of it to 'libcontainer' package and keep the namespace specific code inside that package.
This change is not expected to break docker.
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Vishnu Kannan <vishnuk@google.com> (github: vishh)