> On 07 Jan 2015, at 20:46 , Gleb Smirnoff <gleb...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 09:03:04AM +0000, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> C> Author: rodrigc
> C> Date: Tue Jan  6 09:03:03 2015
> C> New Revision: 276747
> C> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276747
> C> 
> C> Log:
> C>   Instead of creating a purge thread for every vnet, create
> C>   a single purge thread and clean up all vnets from this thread.
> C>   
> C>   PR:                     194515
> C>   Differential Revision:  D1315
> C>   Submitted by:           Nikos Vassiliadis <nv...@gmx.com>
> 
> I am not sure that this is a good idea. The core idea of VNETs
> is that they are isolated from each other. If we serialize purging,
> then vnets are strongly affecting each other.
> 
> AFAIU, from the PR there is some panic fixed. What is the actual bug
> and why couldn't it be fixed with having per-vnet thread?

You don’t 30000 whatever pf purging threads on a system all running, possibly 
competing for some resources, e.g., locks?

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