Re: max rdomain limit 255

On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 01:05:04PM +0200, ptr wrote:
> OK understand. Is a hypothetical 1023 still considered too large for this? 

1023 routing tables with 5 route each, no big deal.
1023 routing tables with 1.5 Mio routes each on the other hand is quite a
big deal.

So there is no answer to this question.
 
> Jun 9, 2026, 13:08 by [email protected]:
> 
> > On 2026-06-09, ptr <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> OK, thanks for the clarification.
> >>
> >> In my case rdomain IDs are sequentially generated and allocated, so this would be less of an issue with memory pressure. I believe the 255 limit could be on the low end if a larger fleet of nodes is factored in and say each tenant's identical rdomain IDs must potentially exist on every node.
> >>
> >
> > besides memory use, some operations use sequential scans of the various
> > rtables present on the system (i.e. at least one per rdomain), and won't
> > scale well with a larger number.
> >
> >
> 

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