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. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
