Re: [RFC v2] eal: increase passed max multi-process file descriptors

2024-03-14 Thread David Marchand
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 4:23 PM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Rather than mess with versioning everything, probably better to just > hold off to 24.11 release and do the change there. > > It will limit xdp and tap PMD's to 8 queues but no user has been > demanding more yet. IIUC, this limitation onl

Re: [RFC v2] eal: increase passed max multi-process file descriptors

2024-03-14 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 12:36:39 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Both XDP and TAP device are limited in the number of queues > because of limitations on the number of file descriptors that > are allowed. The original choice of 8 was too low; the allowed > maximum is 253 according to unix(7) man page

[RFC v2] eal: increase passed max multi-process file descriptors

2024-03-08 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Both XDP and TAP device are limited in the number of queues because of limitations on the number of file descriptors that are allowed. The original choice of 8 was too low; the allowed maximum is 253 according to unix(7) man page. This may look like a serious ABI breakage but it is not. It is simp