Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:01:03 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | [PATCH] fork_init: Update max_threads comment |
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The comment explaining what value max_threads is set to is outdated. The maximum memory consumption ratio for thread structures was 1/2 until February 2002, then it was briefly changed to 1/16 before being set to 1/8 which we still use today. The comment was never updated to reflect that change, it's about time.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux-4.0-rc1.orig/kernel/fork.c 2015-02-23 03:21:14.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-4.0-rc1/kernel/fork.c 2015-03-02 10:48:45.407215590 +0100 @@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ void __init fork_init(unsigned long memp /* * The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe - * value: the thread structures can take up at most half - * of memory. + * value: the thread structures can take up at most one + * eighth of the memory. */ max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
-- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
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