FBSD-13 - Vale maximum virtual switches.

From: Santiago Martinez <sm_at_codenetworks.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:06:32 UTC
Hi Everyone,

The other day had to simulate a network topology and I wanted to use 
vale switches instead of in-kernel bridges.

After creating a few switches I notice that there was a hard limit of 8 
switches ( that is clearly stated on the man page).

For my simulation I needed 32 virtual switches, hence I increase the 
value of NM_BRIDGES from 8 to 64.

After that I was able to create the bridges and they seem to work fine.

My question is, do we need that hard limit on 8? Should this be change 
to a dynamic value set with sysctl?

Best regards.
Santi

diff --git a/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_bdg.h b/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_bdg.h

index e4683885e66c..3afe1d9d5d99 100644
--- a/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_bdg.h
+++ b/sys/dev/netmap/netmap_bdg.h
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@struct netmap_bdg_ops {
int netmap_bwrap_attach(const char *name, struct netmap_adapter *, 
struct netmap_bdg_ops *);
int netmap_bdg_regops(const char *name, struct netmap_bdg_ops *bdg_ops, 
void *private_data, void *auth_token);

-#define        NM_BRIDGES              8       /* number of bridges */
-#define        NM_BDG_MAXPORTS         254     /* up to 254 */
+#define        NM_BRIDGES              64      /* number of bridges */
+#define        NM_BDG_MAXPORTS         16      /* up to 254 */
#define        NM_BDG_BROADCAST        NM_BDG_MAXPORTS
#define        NM_BDG_NOPORT           (NM_BDG_MAXPORTS+1)