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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:24:14 +1000."
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bpf.c 
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In message <20050607092414.GC39114@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>, Peter Jeremy writes:
>On Mon, 2005-Jun-06 22:19:59 +0000, Christian S.J. Peron wrote:
>>  Change the maximum bpf program instruction limitation from being hard-
>>  coded at 512 (BPF_MAXINSNS) to being tunable. This is useful for users
>>  who wish to use complex or large bpf programs when filtering traffic.
>>  For now we will default it to BPF_MAXINSNS. I have tested bpf programs
>>  with well over 21,000 instructions without any problems.
>
>If people are using really large BPF programs, is there a benefit in
>moving from bytecode to machine code?

I'm sure there would be, but we wouldn't be compatible with everybody
else if we did so.

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