On 11. Feb 2012, at 08:35 , Julian Elischer wrote: > On 2/8/12 1:28 PM, Joe Holden wrote: >> Julian Elischer wrote: >>> On 2/8/12 1:08 PM, Joe Holden wrote: >>>> Hey guys, >>>> >>>> The maximum fibs is currently 16 due to an mbuf limitation I believe? Is >>>> there any scope for the number being increased? >>> it was designed to be able to be expanable... there is only the one place. >>> >>> there are upcoming FIB changes and it may be a good oportunity to change >>> this in 10.. >>> >> aha, I was under the impression that it was limited due to mbuf size, not >> sure where I read that - think it was a commit from a while back. > > you are correct.. the one limitation is the mbufs > but we can maybe change the mbuf layout a little in 10 > which will allow for more FIBs
We are basically waiting for someone to touch mbufs for real and to be able to do the full performance re-evaluation but I guess we'd also like to have the secondary zone to die etc all in the same go... Meanwhile updating the limit locally isn't too hard; it's a couple of line change. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb You have to have visions! It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do! _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
