From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:19:37 +0200 > David S. Miller wrote: > > So we can increase MAX_LINKS to 256 and that's what I think I will do > > for 2.6.14 unless there is a very serious objection. The tables sized > > by MAX_LINKS in af_netlink.c are dynamically allocated, and the only > > linear iterations over MAX_LINKS are for the netlink socket procfs > > seq-file dumper, so it's not a performance issue either. > > I think we should increase it when allocating new numbers to save the > unused memory for the larger nltable and additional pid hashes. > Userspace shouldn't care if we change it. Agreed. So we have 17 netlink numbers to allocate at this point, and that should be good for a while. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
