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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC -mm 0/6] sysv ipc: scale msgmnb with the number of cpus
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48613635.70103@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18527.41440.273383.388943@frecb006361.adech.frec.bull.fr>

Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net wrote:
> Humm... now this make me think that you did not change the MSGMNB
> value when you changed MSGMNI and MSGMAX.
> Maybe that was on purpose?
>
>   
I was afraid that it might break user space applications that queue a 
few kb of messages.
That's also the reason for
>                 if (msgsz + msq->q_cbytes <= msq->q_qbytes &&
>                                 1 + msq->q_qnum <= msq->q_qbytes) {
>                         break;
>                 }
It's possible to send 0-byte messages even if the  message queue is full 
[except that you can't send more than MSGMNB messages].

--
    Manfred

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080605145712.116223941@bull.net>
2008-06-07 14:38 ` [RFC -mm 0/6] sysv ipc: scale msgmnb with the number of cpus Manfred Spraul
2008-06-08  7:19   ` Solofo.Ramangalahy
2008-06-23 13:15   ` Solofo.Ramangalahy
2008-06-24 18:00     ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2008-06-25  6:18       ` Solofo.Ramangalahy
2008-06-25 10:12       ` Nadia Derbey
2008-06-06  6:09 Solofo.Ramangalahy
2008-06-06  8:23 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-06 10:20   ` Solofo.Ramangalahy
2008-06-10  6:56 ` Nadia Derbey

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