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Message-Id: <20070322145245.a49fefeb.dada1@cosmosbay.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:52:45 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> Cc: Tomas M <tomas@...x.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: max_loop limit On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:42:31 +0100 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote: > > This time, you would be limited to 16384 loop devices on x86_64, 32768 on i386 :) > > But this still wastes memory, why not just allocate each loop device > dynamically when it is set up? The current approach is crap, it is just > wasting memory for loop devices, queues, etc. > Sure, but it's the first Tomas patch :) Apparently the 'current crap' didnt caugth someone else attention. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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