On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:47:48 +0100 Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> thank you for your comments. Unfortunately there is no solution with
> 32-bit calculus.
How would something along the lines of
if (PAGE_SIZE < THREAD_SIZE)
...
else
...
look?
> Please, see my answers below.
>
> As fork_init is only called once there should be not performance issue
> in using 64-bit calculus.
Sure, it's not a big issue. But please do address the code comments
and no "temp"!
> I think that my patch did not cover all problems connected to max_threads.
>
> I just had a look at the memory hotplugging code.
> Shouldn't max_threads and init_task.signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC] be
> recalculated after adding or removing memory?
> This could be done in a hotplug callback.
That sounds right. We've fixed some of these inaccuracies but there
will be many more remaining. Searching for things like "mempages" and
"nr_free_buffer_pages" shows them up. mem hotplug is an ongoing thing ;)
> max_threads can be set by writing to /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max.
> Shouldn't the value be checked by the same routine
Probably.
> and shouldn't
> init_task.signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC] be updated?
Harder. By this time the system has all these processes which have
inherited their rlimits from init.
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