Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755704AbZBAB1K (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:27:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752068AbZBAB04 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:26:56 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:60446 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751644AbZBAB0z (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:26:55 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eoNYgF+++vpD8psXrb+SgqbbcwIuH7CEuepxe6j0hxT61sDXtikj2r9zHLk2FJwutO 8QWibRcRZi0F4wEZi7q4UitnN9XSuRu6LgBOzF4kQQsvmKznMIlDz0v68lX/9Nyl9m78 pYcomrnc87QHrUChZ+nZHumBvDdUqhVRu30b8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: References: <20090129005716.6dd51929.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:26:53 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch] drop epoll max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches From: Michael Kerrisk To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Willy Tarreau , Bron Gondwana Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 37 Hi Davide, On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> Since max_user_instances was added in 2.6.28, and this is an ABI >> change, I suggest this should go into .29-rc, so that >> max_user_instances spends as little time in the wild as possible. > > Agreed, like I already told Andrew. Sorry Michael for the double change to > the man page :/ So is the right change to the epoll(7) page (see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/epoll.7.html ) to simply remive the text on max_user_instances: /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances (since Linux 2.6.28) This specifies an upper limit on the number of epoll instances that can be created per real user ID. Or are other changes also required? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- 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/