From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750738AbWDXLnJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:43:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750739AbWDXLnJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:43:09 -0400 Received: from smtp107.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.217]:55981 "HELO smtp107.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750738AbWDXLnI (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:43:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=cp7Vbb7oX8hg3AiRuB6LvDbzSZ8htgsowXl3u/imohwD8/UuoVWNpI1RlBsaobqulTEHJsg4rCsYq4gD/CFRPjrISIZLVH2Lx8Czrie/iZsO5erHwuTY1mMmuS6ndy0aaike79trHntuWn9Bh8yf4kGM0X+66k6Y/LIgjuS+RMc= ; Message-ID: <444CB588.6090105@yahoo.com.au> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:24:56 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Boldi CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] threads_max: Simple lockout prevention patch References: <200511142327.18510.a1426z@gawab.com> <200604240756.42483.a1426z@gawab.com> <20060423221157.6a4b5c8e.akpm@osdl.org> <200604241412.13267.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: <200604241412.13267.a1426z@gawab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Al Boldi wrote: > Could do that by: > > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/su-pid > > which would imply nr-threads = 1 > > So maybe introduce /proc/sys/kernel/nr-threads to allow that to be variable, > but this isn't really critical. Why not just have su-nr-threads? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com