Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:27:52 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Two suggestions (loop and owner's of linux tree) |
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On Wed, Oct 24 2001, Lukasz Trabinski wrote: > Hello > > I would like to suggest to change max_loop from 8 to 16 or more if it > possible. > > --- linux.org/drivers/block/loop.c Wed Oct 24 15:23:11 2001 > +++ linux/drivers/block/loop.c Wed Oct 24 15:24:52 2001 > @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ > > #define MAJOR_NR LOOP_MAJOR > > -static int max_loop = 8; > +static int max_loop = 16; > static struct loop_device *loop_dev; > static int *loop_sizes; > static int *loop_blksizes;
You just bumped loop memory usage by 24000 bytes on my system with something that can be handled with a boot parameter. I'd rather see a max_loop = 4 or something patch instead...
-- Jens Axboe
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