linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid

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Message-ID: <20100421193350.GU16427@zorg.emea.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:33:50 +0100
From:	Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>
To:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase
	pid_max v2

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 20:15 John Stoffel wrote:
| >>>>> "Rik" == Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> writes:
| 
| Rik> That is 15 kernel threads per CPU.
| 
| Rik> Reducing the number of kernel threads sounds like a
| Rik> useful thing to do.
| 
| Isn't that already a project? 

Yes, thanks to Alan's probing I looked it up 

    http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git

but we're definitely talking long term solution vs. something that can ease
pain now.

Cheers,
Hedi.
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