On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 05:41:36PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 12:49:45AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> B> > B> > AFAIU, from the PR there is some panic fixed. What is the actual bug
> B> > B> > and why couldn't it be fixed with having per-vnet thread?
> B> > B> 
> B> > B> You don't 30000 whatever pf purging threads on a system all running, 
> possibly competing for some resources, e.g., locks?
> B> > 
> B> > Isn't a vnet, which is a jail, already a set of a dozen of processes? So,
> B> > if you are speaking of "30000 whatever pf purging threads", then you
> B> > already mean "1 mln whatever processes".
> B> 
> B> jail/VNETs can exist without a single process attached.
> B> 
> B> But I guess the point is that there is only so much work we can do at the 
> same time and we should be very careful in what we try to parallellellellize 
> as with 5 vnets it might be fine, with a couple of thousand you may keep a 
> system busy with itself.
> 
> Let's admit that thousand of vnets all running pf is bizarre design
> and has no practical application.

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