Re: [PATCH -mm 0/3] sysv ipc: increase msgmnb with the number ofcpus

From: Nadia Derbey
Date: Thu Jul 03 2008 - 08:05:42 EST


Solofo.Ramangalahy@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Andrew Morton writes:
> I'm afraid I've lost track of what's happening here. Did we come up
> with an alternative to "magical positive-versus-negative number trick"?

Yes, several proposals:
1. /proc/sys/kernel/automatic-msgmnb
(attempt attached).

2. a variation /sys/kernel/automatic/msgmn*
as a mean to alleviate the doubling of the interface.

> Your patch #1 adds and uses recompute_msgmnb() without adding the
> declaration to a header file. Your patch #2 does add the
> recompute_msgmnb() to a header file, so we have a window in which the
> build is broken, which is bad.

Sorry. Another fix needed to my quilt workflow.
Thanks.

> recompute_msgmnb() isn't a terribly good globally-visible identifier,
> btw. It is nice to add some subsystem identifer as a prefix. There's
> little chance of this symbol colliding with anything else, so this is a
> minor cosmetic thing in this case.

ok. msg_recompute_msgmnb seems to be the better name.



Solofo,

I had a look at your patch, and noticed that it is mixing msgmni and msgmnb stuff.
Since the msgmni part is already in mainline, I think we need first to fix the interface issue for msgmni: I've got a patch ready.

And your patch, when reviwed, can then come on top of it.

Sending the patch right now.

Regards,
Nadia
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