>On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Martin Natano <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm currently working on a diff to make bpf a cloning device. Therefore >> it is necessary to increase the number of clones possible of a cloning >> device, as there are users with a need for more than 64 open bpf devices >> at the same time. mikeb@ pointed me to this thread: >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=135410367503770 >> >> Objections/Ok? > >That structure is used for every (open?) device, no? Is there an >estimate of memory usage increase? Maybe the bitmap should be >separately allocated for the cloning device, as there's only a few of >those ever.
Yes this seems like the right place to use a pointer, it will also shrink the objectsize for the default case.
