On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 01:39:30AM +0200, Mijo Safradin wrote:
> Commit 7a6cf343a410d77e05ebd7bf5b5ade52803879ae raised the MAXFD
> limit from 7500 to 65535.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mijo Safradin <[email protected]>

Thanks for the improvement (but see below):

> -\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR started through \fBovs\-ctl\fR(8) provides a limit of 
> 7500
> +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR started through \fBovs\-ctl\fR(8) provides a limit of 
> 65535
>  file descriptors.  The limits on the number of bridges and ports is decided 
> by
>  the availability of file descriptors.  With the Linux kernel datapath, 
> creation
>  of a single bridge consumes 3 file descriptors and adding a port consumes

Since each bridge port now consumes "n-handler-threads" file descriptors
(see the commit that you refererenced), rather than 1 fd, this is only a
halfway fix.  We should completely fix the description, if we are going
to update it.

Thanks,

Ben.
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