From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 1/2] Remove NGROUPS hardlimit (resend w/o qsort)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:14:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD43C65.80103@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200211150006.gAF06JF01621@devserv.devel.redhat.com
Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Two questions.
>
> 1. Why are arrays vmalloc-ed? This is a goochism which you have
> to justify.
Because they can be as large as root allows, and when we used kmalloc()
it would actually fail from time to time.
> 2. How do these changes sit with LLNL's changes to increase
> number of groups that NFS client can support? It's not
> a showstopper, but would be nice if you two cooperated.
hmm, I haven't heard anything about them - can you offer an email or URL?
Thanks
--
Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Linux Kernel Engineering
thockin@sun.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-15 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-11-15 0:06 ` [BK PATCH 1/2] Remove NGROUPS hardlimit (resend w/o qsort) Pete Zaitcev
2002-11-15 0:14 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2002-11-15 0:31 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-11-15 0:46 ` Tim Hockin
2002-11-15 1:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-15 1:45 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-11-15 1:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
[not found] ` <3DD44742.2DFE4407@digeo.com>
2002-11-15 1:24 ` Tim Hockin
2002-11-15 1:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-15 2:33 ` Tim Hockin
2002-11-15 2:41 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-15 15:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-15 6:00 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-11-15 1:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-15 13:32 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2002-11-14 23:26 Timothy Hockin
2002-11-15 16:30 ` Horst von Brand
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