Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750742AbVJQQcd (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:32:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750735AbVJQQcd (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:32:33 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:28567 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750742AbVJQQcc (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:32:32 -0400 Subject: Re: VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached From: Lee Revell To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dipankar Sarma , Jean Delvare , Serge Belyshev , LKML , Andrew Morton , Manfred Spraul In-Reply-To: <4353CADB.8050709@cosmosbay.com> References: <20051017084609.GA6257@in.ibm.com> <43536A6C.102@cosmosbay.com> <20051017103244.GB6257@in.ibm.com> <4353CADB.8050709@cosmosbay.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:31:56 -0400 Message-Id: <1129566717.1321.39.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 575 Lines: 15 On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 18:01 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > A 'realtime refinement' would be to use a different maxbatch limit depending > on the caller's priority : Let a softirq thread have a lower batch count than > a regular user thread. Or just make the whole thing preemptible like in the -rt tree and forget about it. Lee - 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/