On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 06:15:34PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:49:51 +0200 > From: Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Unrelated to the topic, but ... > > | The kernel has a limited number of softints, > > Why?
because AFAIR the softint infrastructure uses bitmasks, and the bitmask is of finite size. I don't remember the details, but this prevented me from upgrading some servers to netbsd7: in netbsd7 bridges uses several soft interrupts (this was not the case in netbsd-6), and I have too many bridges. in netbsd-8 bridges have been fixed to use less softints, so I can run netbsd-8. -- Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --
