On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM Lexi Winter <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > hello, > > i have just MFC'd the sysctl net.link.bridge.member_addrs to stable/14. > for detail see: > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?h=stable/14&id=ff1980d569c8167d38cda5f2713664866d9802bc > > in short, if you have a bridge with a lot of members (20+) and you do > not have any IP addresses assigned to those bridge members, you should > see a significant performance improvement from enabling this sysctl. > > please feel free to test this and report any problems.
So to be clear, this is not the behavior change that's been much talked about in -current. However, it's related to that change. If people want to see if they are affected by that, they should set sysctl net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs=0 to see if their setup still works. Of course, you'd want to do that to get the performance benefit with lots of interfaces, but if you have just a few you might see a behavior change when you update to -current or stable/15 in the future. Nothing will break after this change w/o tweaking the sysctl, but if will behoove you to do some controlled testing in the next year sometime. Warner
