netdev - Re: [net-next RFC 4/8] macvlan: reduce the max number of taps to 8

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Date:	Thu, 23 May 2013 09:37:40 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next RFC 4/8] macvlan: reduce the max number of taps to 8

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:12:29AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> To be same with tap.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>

Well for tap the very specific reason was that
there's an array of big queue structures,
so we need to limit it to make it fit in a page.
No such reason here right?

We need at least as much as tap to be compatible, so
let's just make it 16 unconditionally?

> ---
>  include/linux/if_macvlan.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
> index e47ad46..32e943a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
> +++ b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ struct macvlan_pcpu_stats {
>   * Maximum times a macvtap device can be opened. This can be used to
>   * configure the number of receive queue, e.g. for multiqueue virtio.
>   */
> -#define MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES	(NR_CPUS < 16 ? NR_CPUS : 16)
> +#define MAX_MACVTAP_QUEUES	8
>  
>  #define MACVLAN_MC_FILTER_BITS	8
>  #define MACVLAN_MC_FILTER_SZ	(1 << MACVLAN_MC_FILTER_BITS)
> -- 
> 1.7.1
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