Re: max_loop limit

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 09:52:59 EST


On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:42:31 +0100
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> > This time, you would be limited to 16384 loop devices on x86_64, 32768 on i386 :)
>
> But this still wastes memory, why not just allocate each loop device
> dynamically when it is set up? The current approach is crap, it is just
> wasting memory for loop devices, queues, etc.
>

Sure, but it's the first Tomas patch :)

Apparently the 'current crap' didnt caugth someone else attention.
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