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Hi Chandra,

Chandra Seetharaman wrote:

> It is not a limit, it is the system level number of tasks assumed by the
> numtasks controller, so, it cannot be a _no limit_, it has to be real
> number.

If the magic numner 131072 is not hard coded in the numtask source code
and copied from the kernel parameter in runtime, it makes sense.
But, copying magic number is ugly.

Thanks,
MAEDA Naoaki