Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:25:48 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_unix: limit unix_tot_inflight
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> I knew somebody would suggest this ;)
> 
> Hmm, why bother ?
> 
> Do you think 16000 is too big ? Too small ?

I just don't like static limits. Traditionally even the ones
that seemed reasonable at some point were hit by someone
years later.

The latency issue you mention is a valid concern. I guess
an incremental GC would be overkill here ...

-Andi
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