On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 02:21:00PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:

> It wasn't made explicit above, so I'll ask: Can the global zone modify 
> non-global zone nodes in addition to being able to see them via lofiadm?

Yes, although it's obviously not recommended.

> >     Currently, lofi has a limit of 128 devices.
> 
> Out of curiosity, why does it currently have this limit?

To prevent arbitrary-sized allocations of the soft state array.

> >     This case removes this
> >     limit as it is not extendable to the multi-zone case. Instead, the
> >     number of lofi devices is restricted by each device's associated
> >     taskq: the lofi taskq is created as zsched thread, and the zone
> >     resource control max-lwps applies.
> 
> Are there resources other than threads consumed?  More specifically, 
> would there be a need for one to limit the number of lofi devices while 
> not limiting the number of lwps for other purposes?

This would be pointless.

regards
john
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