Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:14:29 -0800 | From | Tim Hockin <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH 1/2] Remove NGROUPS hardlimit (resend w/o qsort) |
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Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Two questions. > > 1. Why are arrays vmalloc-ed? This is a goochism which you have > to justify.
Because they can be as large as root allows, and when we used kmalloc() it would actually fail from time to time.
> 2. How do these changes sit with LLNL's changes to increase > number of groups that NFS client can support? It's not > a showstopper, but would be nice if you two cooperated.
hmm, I haven't heard anything about them - can you offer an email or URL?
Thanks
-- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Linux Kernel Engineering thockin@sun.com
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