Re: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] nfds limit for poll() raised to 131 million (is that enough?)

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 04:18:33 EST

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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Does Alan have any preference or are we all working in the wrong direction
> and he prefers kmalloc/vmalloc split (or some other) idea?

For example, some other idea may be to create a pollfd_cache slab cache
at system initialization and have poll() allocate/free objects from it as
needed. May even be faster than what we currently have?

Just an idea,
Tigran.

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