Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754875Ab0DUWtx (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:49:53 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47467 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754646Ab0DUWtw (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:49:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4BCF80F2.2010906@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:49:22 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: John Stoffel , Hedi Berriche , Alan Cox , Mike Travis , Ingo Molnar , 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 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> <20100421193350.GU16427@zorg.emea.sgi.com> <19407.23456.469074.256306@stoffel.org> <20100421222414.GA26241@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20100421222414.GA26241@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 16 On 04/21/2010 06:24 PM, Greg KH wrote: > Tejun's work has much better long term potential, but this is still an > issue for large #cpu systems, which we want Linux to support well. This > isn't a "specialized niche" for Linux, at all, Linux pretty much > dominates this hardware area, and it would be nice to ensure that this > continues. Yes, the pid_max patch seems like a decent stop gap for distro kernels right now. However, Tejun's work is probably a more appropriate path forward. -- 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/