The patch titled
Subject: fork_init: Update max_threads comment
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fork_init-update-max_threads-comment.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fork_init-update-max_threads-comment.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fork_init-update-max_threads-comment.patch
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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
Subject: fork_init: Update max_threads comment
The comment explaining what value max_threads is set to is outdated. The
maximum memory consumption ratio for thread structures was 1/2 until
February 2002, then it was briefly changed to 1/16 before being set to 1/8
which we still use today. The comment was never updated to reflect that
change, it's about time.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/fork.c~fork_init-update-max_threads-comment kernel/fork.c
--- a/kernel/fork.c~fork_init-update-max_threads-comment
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ void __init fork_init(unsigned long memp
/*
* The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe
- * value: the thread structures can take up at most half
- * of memory.
+ * value: the thread structures can take up at most one
+ * eighth of the memory.
*/
max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jdelvare@xxxxxxx are
fork_init-update-max_threads-comment.patch
linux-next.patch
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