From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965024AbWFNQQ3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:16:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965027AbWFNQQ3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:16:29 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:54493 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965024AbWFNQQ3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:16:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:19:13 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] binfmt: turn MAX_ARG_PAGES into a sysctl tunable Message-Id: <20060614091913.3c7adb83.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <4490310C.9010601@linux.intel.com> References: <1150297122.31522.54.camel@lappy> <4490310C.9010601@linux.intel.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:53:48 -0700 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > From: Peter Zijlstra > > > > Some folks find 128KB of env+arg space too little. Solaris provides them with > > 1MB. Manually changing MAX_ARG_PAGES worked for them so far, however they > > would like to run the supported vendor kernel. > > then this patch should go to the vendors maybe ;) Wouldn't a mainline merge get it to the vendors? or put another way, why would the distro vendors want it if it's not in mainline? > > In the interrest of not penalizing everybody with the overhead of just > > setting it larger, provide a sysctl to change it. > > > > > why not go all the way and make it truely dynamic ? --- ~Randy