Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755748Ab0DUTdy (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:33:54 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:52880 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755503Ab0DUTdx (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:33:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:33:50 +0100 From: Hedi Berriche To: John Stoffel Cc: Rik van Riel , Alan Cox , Mike Travis , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linus Torvalds , Jack Steiner , Andrew Morton , Robin Holt , LKML Subject: Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 Message-ID: <20100421193350.GU16427@zorg.emea.sgi.com> References: <4BCE579C.5070100@sgi.com> <4BCE5A73.3000904@sgi.com> <20100421102350.4c222e6b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100421165934.GN16427@zorg.emea.sgi.com> <4BCF336B.1050706@redhat.com> <19407.20109.308816.104856@stoffel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19407.20109.308816.104856@stoffel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 27 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 20:15 John Stoffel wrote: | >>>>> "Rik" == Rik van Riel writes: | | Rik> That is 15 kernel threads per CPU. | | Rik> Reducing the number of kernel threads sounds like a | Rik> useful thing to do. | | Isn't that already a project? Yes, thanks to Alan's probing I looked it up http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git but we're definitely talking long term solution vs. something that can ease pain now. Cheers, Hedi. -- Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain -- 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/