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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Cc: brouer@redhat.com, kafai@fb.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	eric@regit.org, borkmann@iogearbox.net
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/4] samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for traceex2, tracex3 and tracex4
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 09:31:50 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170503.093150.577196301654107151.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170503005314.7oovr764r3e4elzd@ast-mbp>

From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 17:53:16 -0700

> On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 02:31:50PM +0200, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>> Needed to adjust max locked memory RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for testing these bpf samples
>> as these are using more and larger maps than can fit in distro default 64Kbytes limit.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
> ...
>> +	struct rlimit r = {1024*1024, RLIM_INFINITY};
> ...
>> +	struct rlimit r = {1024*1024, RLIM_INFINITY};
> 
> why magic numbers?
> All other samples do
> struct rlimit r = {RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY};

Let's not do that.

People run these tests often as root, so the safer we make running
these test the better.

A weird magic limit is better than none at all.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-03 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-02 12:31 [net-next PATCH 0/4] Improve bpf ELF-loader under samples/bpf Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-02 12:31 ` [net-next PATCH 1/4] samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for traceex2, tracex3 and tracex4 Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-03  0:53   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-05-03  8:12     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-03 13:31     ` David Miller [this message]
2017-05-02 12:31 ` [net-next PATCH 2/4] samples/bpf: make bpf_load.c code compatible with ELF maps section changes Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-03  0:54   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-05-03  5:48     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-02 12:32 ` [net-next PATCH 3/4] samples/bpf: load_bpf.c make callback fixup more flexible Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-02 12:32 ` [net-next PATCH 4/4] samples/bpf: export map_data[] for more info on maps Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-02 19:40 ` [net-next PATCH 0/4] Improve bpf ELF-loader under samples/bpf David Miller
2017-05-02 20:30   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-05-02 21:10 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-05-03  6:16   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-05-03 11:48     ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-05-03 13:30 ` David Miller

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