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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:34:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912133414.GP25741@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040912124420.GA29587@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

 
> /*
>  * the semaphore definition
>  */
> struct rw_semaphore {
>         /* XXX this should be able to be an atomic_t  -- paulus */
>         signed int              count;
> #define RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE            0x00000000
> #define RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS               0x00000001
> #define RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK               0x0000ffff
> 
> that counter is split in 2 16 bit entities....

Yuck, 64k waiters is asking for trouble. BTW x86-64 mentions it can only
handle 32k writers, that probably wants looking at.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-12 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-12  8:56 /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12  9:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12  9:51   ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12  9:58   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 10:10     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 10:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 10:43       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 10:45         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 11:08           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 11:20             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12 17:13               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 18:02                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-12 23:06                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-13  1:46                 ` [pidhashing] rewrite alloc_pidmap() William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12  9:39 ` /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues Ingo Molnar
2004-09-12  9:43   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-12 12:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-12 12:30   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-12 12:44     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-12 13:34       ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2004-09-12 13:41       ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-13  3:20 Albert Cahalan
2004-09-13  7:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-13 14:11   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-13 14:27     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-13 14:51       ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-14  2:13         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-23 13:13       ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-24 16:02         ` Martin Mares
2004-09-23 13:11   ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-13  7:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-13 13:54   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-13 14:24     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-13 14:54       ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-14  2:02         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 15:32     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-18 18:32       ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-23 13:18     ` Pavel Machek

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