Re: increase softint_bytes

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 03:35:48PM +0900, Masanobu SAITOH wrote:
> bridge, agr, strip, sl, stf, ppp, l2tp, gre and maybe some other
> pseudo interfaces which is created by ifconfig command allocate
> softint. Some of them may be created tens, hundreds or more.
> So I think it's worth to check the current number.

I have dom0 Xen with about 50 vlans and 50 bridges at work.
They're stuck to netbsd-6 because netbsd-7 runs out of softints
with that many interfaces.

As I understand it, things changed in this area in netbsd-8 and 
it should support that many vlans/bridges, but don't put the barrier too low.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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