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| author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2008-02-06 01:37:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-06 10:41:06 -0800 |
| commit | 9cfe015aa424b3c003baba3841a60dd9b5ad319b (patch) | |
| tree | 5575e06efcf91018f860f2db43979e8e91aba1c3 /fs/file.c | |
| parent | 774ed22c21ab95d582dfff38560f11cf290baeb4 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9cfe015aa424b3c003baba3841a60dd9b5ad319b.tar.gz lwn-9cfe015aa424b3c003baba3841a60dd9b5ad319b.zip | |
get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.
Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.
Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.
This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/file.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c index c5575de01113..5110acb1c9ef 100644 --- a/fs/file.c +++ b/fs/file.c @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ struct fdtable_defer { struct fdtable *next; }; +int sysctl_nr_open __read_mostly = 1024*1024; + /* * We use this list to defer free fdtables that have vmalloced * sets/arrays. By keeping a per-cpu list, we avoid having to embed @@ -147,8 +149,8 @@ static struct fdtable * alloc_fdtable(unsigned int nr) nr /= (1024 / sizeof(struct file *)); nr = roundup_pow_of_two(nr + 1); nr *= (1024 / sizeof(struct file *)); - if (nr > NR_OPEN) - nr = NR_OPEN; + if (nr > sysctl_nr_open) + nr = sysctl_nr_open; fdt = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fdtable), GFP_KERNEL); if (!fdt) @@ -233,7 +235,7 @@ int expand_files(struct files_struct *files, int nr) if (nr < fdt->max_fds) return 0; /* Can we expand? */ - if (nr >= NR_OPEN) + if (nr >= sysctl_nr_open) return -EMFILE; /* All good, so we try */ |