From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:14:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4E9556.7050003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1iq425tay.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On 07/26/10 20:19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Cong Wang<amwang@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> So, what is a better number? 2048? :)
>
> I was thinking something a little ridiculous like 10K or 64K.
>
> Assuming the usage you care about is something like hibernate on a
> machine with disjoint memory where you truly need one segment for
> each memory region.
>
> The only point of a limit at all once we introduce dynamic allocation
> is to catch buggy apps.
>
Ok, I will change that number and improve the changelog.
Thanks.
--
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-22 6:13 [Patch] kexec: increase max of kexec segments and use dynamic allocation Amerigo Wang
2010-07-22 6:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-22 6:40 ` Cong Wang
2010-07-22 7:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-23 2:57 ` huang ying
2010-07-25 2:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-26 10:11 ` Cong Wang
2010-07-26 12:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-07-27 8:14 ` Cong Wang [this message]
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