From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>, Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:49:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCF80F2.2010906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421222414.GA26241@suse.de>
On 04/21/2010 06:24 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> Tejun's work has much better long term potential, but this is still an
> issue for large #cpu systems, which we want Linux to support well. This
> isn't a "specialized niche" for Linux, at all, Linux pretty much
> dominates this hardware area, and it would be nice to ensure that this
> continues.
Yes, the pid_max patch seems like a decent stop gap for
distro kernels right now. However, Tejun's work is
probably a more appropriate path forward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-21 1:40 [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max Mike Travis
2010-04-21 1:52 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 Mike Travis
2010-04-21 9:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-21 16:59 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 17:18 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-21 17:54 ` Mike Travis
2010-04-21 19:14 ` John Stoffel
2010-04-21 19:33 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 20:10 ` John Stoffel
2010-04-21 22:24 ` Greg KH
2010-04-21 22:49 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-04-21 23:22 ` Greg KH
2010-04-22 9:28 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-22 12:58 ` Jack Steiner
2010-04-22 13:57 ` Robin Holt
2010-04-22 14:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-22 17:08 ` Robin Holt
2010-04-22 18:10 ` John Stoffel
2010-04-22 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-25 7:16 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-25 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-25 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-25 12:13 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-26 19:48 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v3 Mike Travis
2010-04-26 20:46 ` Greg KH
2010-04-27 0:43 ` Mike Travis
2010-04-27 0:42 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Increase pid_max based on num_possible_cpus v4 Mike Travis
2010-04-21 17:58 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 Alan Cox
2010-04-21 19:12 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 19:51 ` Greg KH
2010-04-21 20:12 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 22:05 ` Jack Steiner
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