Re: VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached

["Jean Delvare" <khali@linux-fr.org>]

Hi Linus, Dipankar, all,

On 2005-10-17, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I would _really_ prefer to not do this in the system call hot-path by
> default. That is unquestionably the hottest path in the kernel by far.
>
> It would be _much_ better to set one of the TIF_WORK flags when there's a
> lot of RCU stuff, and do this all in the not-quit-so-hot path of
> do_notify_resume() (on x86, I think others call it other things) instead.
>
> If you use the same kind of "set the TIF flag every 1000 rcu events"
> approach that my failed patch had, you'd be much better off.
>
> In fact, in that path you could even do a full "rcu_process_callbacks()".
> After all, this is not that different from signal handling.
>
> Gaah. I had really hoped to release 2.6.14 tomorrow. It's been a week
> since -rc4.

Isn't reverting the original change an option? 2.6.13 was working OK if
I'm not mistaken.

Thanks,
--
Jean Delvare