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SubjectRe: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] nfds limit for poll() raised to 131 million (is that enough?)
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Excellent idea!

hmmm, you think so? I felt a bit embarrased after posting it because I
thought it was not such a good idea because one would have to reorganize
the way we pass parameters to do_poll() completely. Well, do_poll() only
walks through one element at a time so it can walk through the (say,
linked list?) of slab'd pollfd objects one at a time.

> - No fd limit, for free
yes, true.

> To keep it scalable on SMP, you'd want a per-processor slab cache.

I know - we had lots of chats with Mark Hemment about this
stuff and I gradually moved from understanding 0.1% to about 78% of what
he is talking about :)

Regards,
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Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran



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