From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966071AbXDGQTV (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:19:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966076AbXDGQTV (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:19:21 -0400 Received: from h80ad275a.async.vt.edu ([128.173.39.90]:42044 "EHLO h80ad275a.async.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966071AbXDGQTU (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:19:20 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Ken Chen , Tomas M , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:33:32 EDT." <4616AE9C.9060400@tmr.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20070330141524.5f6cff29.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <460FE380.2050608@slax.org> <460FE478.9070901@slax.org> <4616AE9C.9060400@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1175962732_4736P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:18:52 -0400 Message-ID: <11158.1175962732@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1175962732_4736P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:33:32 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Who cares if the user specifies max_loop=8 but still is able to open up > > /dev/loop8, loop9, etc.? max_loop=X basically meant (at least to me) > > "have at least X" loops ready. > > > You have just come up with a really good reason not to do unlimited > loops. That, and I'd expect the intuitive name for "have at least N ready" to be 'min_loop=N'. 'max_loop=N' means (to me, at least) "If I ask for N+1, something has obviously gone very wrong, so please shoot my process before it gets worse". Maybe what's needed is *both* a max_ and min_ parameter? --==_Exmh_1175962732_4736P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFGF8RscC3lWbTT17ARAoL4AJ9ZTtIA7mWcYoiyEZcB33E3MKPfBwCfbAaf vZjivbjNfbNUu4Cp0+GvVzo= =o8rc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1175962732_4736P--