Hello! I'm curious as well and I'd like to ask you also, if you could, to send me (privately) a binary and a corefile of such a case you are writing about. I'll inspect the memory and tell exactly how much you'd be affected by the u32->u64 change.
Thanks a lot! Maria On March 28, 2022 8:18:09 PM UTC, Douglas Fischer <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hello Trisha! > >This scenario you mentioned made me curious! > >Can you comment a little (as far as possible respecting contracts) how is >this scenario with little memory and many Kernel routes? > >What kind of hardware? >Where would this be applied? > >Em seg., 28 de mar. de 2022 às 13:55, Trisha Biswas <tbis...@fastly.com> >escreveu: > >> We do have use cases where we run BIRD in low memory environments with a >> lot of routes in the kernel, so moving everything to 64-bits could >> potentially hurt these scenarios. Option #3 would be very confusing, so >> we'd have to vote for keeping things as is. >> >> Thanks, >> Trisha >> -- >> >> *Trisha Biswas* | Sr. Software Engineer, Network Systems >> fastly.com | @fastly <https://twitter.com/fastly> | LinkedIn >> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/fastly> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 5:04 AM Mathew Heard <m...@mheard.com> wrote: >> >>> Is there even any userbase running bird on embedded hardware (that might >>> be adversely affected)? >>> >>> Dn42 comes to mind. Perhaps? But realistically we aren't talking about >>> much of an increase surely? >>> >>> Other than that I like 64bit only. >>> >>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022, 10:20 pm Douglas Fischer, <fischerdoug...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I need to agree with Toke! >>>> "having Bird behave differently on different archs is bound to be >>>> incredibly confusing..." >>>> >>>> And, on the other hand, what would be the downside of having everything >>>> in 64? >>>> Using a little more memory than might be the minimum usable? >>>> >>>> This kind of care I see being taken for applications that run platforms >>>> with serious memory limitations. >>>> I don't see that this is BIRD's niche. >>>> >>>> >>>> In a real scenario of high demand using BIRD, how much memory would be >>>> "wasted"? >>>> In these real high demand scenarios, who uses 32bit these days? >>>> >>>> I would worry more about CPU cycles. >>>> >>>> Em sáb., 26 de mar. de 2022 às 19:19, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen < >>>> t...@toke.dk> escreveu: >>>> >>>>> Maria Matejka <maria.mate...@nic.cz> writes: >>>>> >>>>> > Is there anybody who would try to convince me that I shouldn't make >>>>> > filter integers and route attribute integers both 64 bits wide? >>>>> >>>>> I think switching everything to 64-bits sounds quite sensible. Whatever >>>>> you do, please don't go with option 3, though, having Bird behave >>>>> differently on different archs is bound to be incredibly confusing... :) >>>>> >>>>> -Toke >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Douglas Fernando Fischer >>>> Engº de Controle e Automação >>>> >>> > >-- >Douglas Fernando Fischer >Engº de Controle e Automação -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
