From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: abz@frogfoot.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: adding more than 100 network devices -- problems
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:23:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050912.132324.75976885.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050912130242.GA15822@oasis.frogfoot.net>
From: Abraham van der Merwe <abz@frogfoot.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:02:42 +0200
> The problem is that network devices are currently limited to 100
> (dev_alloc_name() in net/core/dev.c).
This limit has been increased to 8*PAGE_SIZE in current
2.6.x kernels.
In 2.4.x you can safely increase the hard-coded limit in
dev_alloc_name() but if you have a lot of programs causing
the kernel to lookup devices by string name, you may run
into some performance problems.
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2005-09-12 13:02 Abraham van der Merwe
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