Re: 2.4.17:Increase number of anonymous filesystems beyond 256?

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>]

Pete Zaitcev writes:
> > From: Rainer Krienke <krienke@uni-koblenz.de>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:58:48 +0100
> 
> > diff -Naur linux-2.4.17.orig/fs/super.c linux-2.4.17/fs/super.c
> > --- linux-2.4.17.orig/fs/super.c        Fri Dec 21 18:42:03 2001
> > +++ linux-2.4.17/fs/super.c     Thu Jan 24 08:23:05 2002
> > @@ -489,13 +489,13 @@
> >   * filesystems which don't use real block-devices.  -- jrs
> >   */
> > 
> > -static unsigned long unnamed_dev_in_use[256/(8*sizeof(unsigned long))];
> > +static unsigned long unnamed_dev_in_use[4096/(8*sizeof(unsigned long))];
> > 
> >  kdev_t get_unnamed_dev(void)
> >  {
> >         int i;
> > 
> > -       for (i = 1; i < 256; i++) {
> > +       for (i = 1; i < 4096; i++) {
> >                 if (!test_and_set_bit(i,unnamed_dev_in_use))
> >                         return MKDEV(UNNAMED_MAJOR, i);
> >         }
> >[...]
> > mount a very high number only limited by the bitmap unnamed_dev_in_use of NFS 
> > directories. The problems are:
> 
> Rainer, you missed the point. Nobody cares about small things
> such as "cannot start nfsd" while your 4096 mounts patch
> simply CORRUPTS YOUR DATA TO HELL.
> 
> If you need more than 1200 mounts, you have to add more majors
> to my patch. There is a number of them between 115 and 198.
> I suspect scalability problems may become evident
> with this approach, but it will work.
> 
> Trond asked if I requested numbers from HPA, and the answer is no,
> because I wanted the patch in circulation for a while before it
> is worth bothering. Also, I heard that LANA is closed anyways.

You can use devfs_alloc_major() to safely grab unassigned majors.
If necessary, I can move this to a generic area.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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