The patch titled ipc: HARD_MSGMAX should be higher not lower on 64bit has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipc-hard_msgmax-should-be-higher-not-lower-on-64bit.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ipc: HARD_MSGMAX should be higher not lower on 64bit From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> We have HARD_MSGMAX lower on 64bit than on 32bit, since usually 64bit machines have more memory than 32bit machines. Making it higher on 64bit seems reasonable, and keep the original number on 32bit. Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/ipc_namespace.h~ipc-hard_msgmax-should-be-higher-not-lower-on-64bit include/linux/ipc_namespace.h --- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h~ipc-hard_msgmax-should-be-higher-not-lower-on-64bit +++ a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ extern int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespa /* default values */ #define DFLT_QUEUESMAX 256 /* max number of message queues */ #define DFLT_MSGMAX 10 /* max number of messages in each queue */ -#define HARD_MSGMAX (131072/sizeof(void *)) +#define HARD_MSGMAX (32768*sizeof(void *)/4) #define DFLT_MSGSIZEMAX 8192 /* max message size */ #else static inline int mq_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from amwang@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch hfs-fix-a-potential-buffer-overflow.patch linux-next.patch xtensa-use-generic-sys_pipe.patch sysctl_max_map_count-should-be-non-negative.patch rwsem-spinlock-remove-useless-function-exports.patch rwsem-fix-rwsem_is_locked-bugs.patch rwsem-fix-rwsem_is_locked-bugs-fix.patch kallsyms-remove-deprecated-print_fn_descriptor_symbol.patch ipc-remove-unreachable-code-in-semc.patch ipc-remove-unreachable-code-in-semc-fix.patch ipc-hard_msgmax-should-be-higher-not-lower-on-64bit.patch kexec-premit-reduction-of-the-reserved-memory-size.patch kexec-premit-reduction-of-the-reserved-memory-size-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html