Re: [RFC/PATCH 6/8]: CGroup Files: Remove cpuset_common_file_write()

["Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 23:37:13 -0700
>  menage@google.com wrote:
>
>  > @@ -1412,14 +1355,18 @@ static struct cftype files[] = {
>  >       {
>  >               .name = "cpus",
>  >               .read = cpuset_common_file_read,
>  > -             .write = cpuset_common_file_write,
>  > +             .write_string = update_cpumask,
>  > +             .max_write_len = (100U + 6 * NR_CPUS),
>
>  hm, magic handwavy surely-enough-for-anyone constants.

This is just a movement of the check previously in cpuset_common_file_write():

	/* Crude upper limit on largest legitimate cpulist user might write. */
	if (nbytes > 100U + 6 * max(NR_CPUS, MAX_NUMNODES))
		return -E2BIG;

I'll add more comments. But I think it's a reasonable limit - assuming
that you wastefully enumerate each cpu individually, separated by
commas, 6 * NR_CPUS is enough for 100K CPUs.

Paul