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From: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>
To: Alessandro Bono <alessandro.bono@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] increase MAX_NICS value
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007091230.58502.iggy@theiggy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278689957.9187.12.camel@champagne>

On Friday, July 09, 2010 10:39:17 am Alessandro Bono wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> max number of allowed nics per vm is hardcoded on net.h to 8. This value
> it's too low in situation with big network, increase to 24
> this should be safe as mentioned on this thread
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2009/1/29/4848304/thread


A better long term solution might be to convert it to QLIST or something 
instead of hardcoding the array size.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Bono <alessandro.bono@gmail.com>
> 
> --- net.h.old   2010-07-09 17:30:39.542170103 +0200
> +++ net.h       2010-07-09 17:30:48.842166029 +0200
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
> 
>  /* NIC info */
> 
> -#define MAX_NICS 8
> +#define MAX_NICS 24
> 
>  struct NICInfo {
>      uint8_t macaddr[6];

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09 15:39 [PATCH] increase MAX_NICS value Alessandro Bono
2010-07-09 17:30 ` Brian Jackson [this message]
2010-07-12 12:54   ` Alessandro Bono
2010-07-10  5:59 ` Markus Armbruster

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