Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:07:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:07:39 -0500 Received: from pheriche.sun.com ([192.18.98.34]:53460 "EHLO pheriche.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:07:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD43C65.80103@sun.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:14:29 -0800 From: Tim Hockin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Zaitcev , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 1/2] Remove NGROUPS hardlimit (resend w/o qsort) References: <200211150006.gAF06JF01621@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 853 Lines: 29 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 - 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/