From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Two suggestions (loop and owner's of linux tree)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:27:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011025112752.A4795@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110241605020.12884-100000@oceanic.wsisiz.edu.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110241605020.12884-100000@oceanic.wsisiz.edu.pl>
On Wed, Oct 24 2001, Lukasz Trabinski wrote:
> Hello
>
> I would like to suggest to change max_loop from 8 to 16 or more if it
> possible.
>
> --- linux.org/drivers/block/loop.c Wed Oct 24 15:23:11 2001
> +++ linux/drivers/block/loop.c Wed Oct 24 15:24:52 2001
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
>
> #define MAJOR_NR LOOP_MAJOR
>
> -static int max_loop = 8;
> +static int max_loop = 16;
> static struct loop_device *loop_dev;
> static int *loop_sizes;
> static int *loop_blksizes;
You just bumped loop memory usage by 24000 bytes on my system with
something that can be handled with a boot parameter. I'd rather see a
max_loop = 4 or something patch instead...
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-25 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-24 14:13 Two suggestions (loop and owner's of linux tree) Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-24 14:21 ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2001-10-24 14:38 ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-24 14:48 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-10-24 14:57 ` James Sutherland
2001-10-24 15:04 ` Lukasz Trabinski
2001-10-25 9:27 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-10-25 9:52 ` Asus CUV-266-D vs Intel NIC Dead2
2001-10-25 10:18 ` Asus CUV-266-D vs Intel NIC (also MSI-6321) Dead2
2001-10-25 10:39 ` Dead2
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