linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] max

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Message-Id: <89DC3EEA-72A3-4F6A-9FD8-FD5D5010BE39@mac.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:54:17 -0400
From:	Kyle Moffett <mrlinuxman@....com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, Tomas M <tomas@...x.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] max_loop limit

On Mar 23, 2007, at 19:26:34, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> here's one. Allocates all the fluff dynamically. It does not create  
> any dev nodes by itself, so you need to do it (à la mdadm), but  
> you'll get all 1048576 available minors.
>
> +static LIST_HEAD(loop_devices);

Maybe an rbtree would work better here?  Maximum number of nodes  
traversed to get to the bottom of the tree given 2^(20) loop devices  
is 19 as opposed to the 2^(20) for a linked list.  Also, to preserve  
compatibility with existing userspace loop tools you should probably  
always allocate one extra loop device.  Keep a "highest used loopdev"  
number and create the one after that so that udev will autocreate a  
dev node for it.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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