From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:57:57 -0700
> Why do we need 10000 interfaces? Why isn't network device creation a > slow path? Because people create virtual devices like mad. > So is this a bug report telling me that there are users with > 10k or 100k interfaces that care. So we need to fix sysctl. Unquestionably, we do, it's a major regression. People create thousands of VLAN devices, as one of many examples, all the time. That's why we even bother hashing network devices in the network code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
