David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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.
It might be an reasonable option to just stop creating sysctl entries for interfaces after some threshold. I presume people who have that many interfaces will mostly work through {default,all}/* anyways. I think that would be a better option than to complicate sysctl.c for this uncommon case. -Andi -- 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/