[PATCH] net loopback: change the nloopbacks default back from 4 to 8

[PATCH] net loopback: change the nloopbacks default back from 4 to 8

[Kirk Allan]

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We have several machines with four integrated NICs that currently do not have functional drivers.  We add a more common NIC to the machine to get things working.  Since the integrated NICs get assigned interfaces eth0 - eth3 and the add-in NIC eth4, we do not get a loopback interface for eth4 because it is the fifth interface.  It also seems likely in a data center that machines could use more that four network interfaces.

This patch changes the nloopbacks parameter default back from 4 to 8.

signed-of-by Kirk Allan <kallan@novell.com>

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--- a/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/netback/loopback.c	2007-01-26 09:22:29.000000000 -0700
+++ b/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/netback/loopback.c	2007-01-26 09:24:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
 	int i, err = 0;
 
 	if (nloopbacks == -1)
-		nloopbacks = is_initial_xendomain() ? 4 : 0;
+		nloopbacks = is_initial_xendomain() ? 8 : 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nloopbacks; i++)
 		if ((err = make_loopback(i)) != 0)

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