v11->v12: - As suggested by Matthew, change patch 2 to increment sequence number when there is a wrap around in generated ID instead of after a ID deletion. v10->v11: - Remove the sysctl parameter. Now delete mode is the only way the sequence number is updated. The only choice users had to make is whether they need to specify ipcmni_extend in the boot command line or not. - Cyclical id allocation is enabled only in the ipcmni_extend mode. - Increase max # of ids in ipcmni_extend mode to 16M. v9 patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/7/1141 v10 patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/5/791 v11 patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/10/32 There are users out there requesting increase in the IPCMNI value to more than 32k. This patchset does that by using a boot kernel parameter "ipcmni_extend" to increase the IPCMNI limit from 32k to 16M when that boot command line option is specified. Patch 1 adds a "ipcmni_extend" boot command line parameter to extend the IPCMNI limit from 32k to 16M. Patch 2 changes how the sequence number within an id is being generated by incrementing it only when the generated id is not greater than the previous one. That reduces the chance of id reuse whether "ipcmni_extend" is set or not. Patch 3 makes identifier allocation go cyclical through the entire 24-bit id space with "ipcmni_extend" only to further reduce the chance of id reuse, but probably with a slight memory and performance overhead. The cyclical id allocation isn't done for non-ipcmni_extend mode as the potential memory and performance overhead may be problematic on system with slow CPU and little memory. Systems that run applications which need more than 32k IPC identifiers can certainly afford the extra overhead. Waiman Long (3): ipc: Allow boot time extension of IPCMNI from 32k to 16M ipc: Conserve sequence numbers in ipcmni_extend mode ipc: Do cyclic id allocation with ipcmni_extend mode Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++ include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 1 + ipc/ipc_sysctl.c | 14 +++++++- ipc/util.c | 27 ++++++++++----- ipc/util.h | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++----- 5 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1
