lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [May]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH]: DELAYTIMER_MAX is defined
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> george anzinger wrote:
>
>
>>This, of course, also says that we should not only limit the value of
>>overrun, but also do something different when it happens.
>
>
> That's legitimate and in this case we perhaps should publish this lower
> value since it can be limiting. Since real work is involved in having
> higher values this constitutes another possible DoS in the code and has
> to be resolved.

As soon as I get a few other fires under control, I will be working on
this and the limit on number of timers issue. Andrew Morton suggested
an rlimit for that. Perhaps that is what should be used here also.

Seem reasonable?

--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:35    [W:0.198 / U:0.232 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site