On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:14:23 -0700 > Chandra Seetharaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 00:20 -0700, Paul Menage wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The fixed-sized buffer used by show_members() means that currently if > > > you have a fairly large number of processes in a class (~1000) then > > > attempts to read the "members" file for that class fail with ENOSPC. > > > What's the plan for getting round that problem? > > > > > > The cleanest approach that I can think of would be to extend configfs, > > > to allow configfs entries to (optionally) report values via a seq_file > > > interface rather a fixed-sized buffer. > > > > This is the plan. But, the configfs maintainer was not happy with that > > feature addition as it will make the file system more complex. > > In a contest between "complex" and "having some pathetic limitation", we'll > take "complex". > > Did the configfs maintainer (was it Mark?) have some other proposed fix?
I think it was Joel. His point was that files in configfs was intended to be used as attr=value type of usage, and data worth of PAGE_SIZE is good enough for that kind of usage. > > If not, a seq_file-based fix sounds OK to me. We don't have to actually > merge it until something which needs it is also in-tree, but a 1000-item Yes :) Since ckrm/RG is not in-tree, i did not pursue it further. > limit (depends on PAGE_SIZE, too?) is silly. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > ckrm-tech mailing list > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose.... - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .......you may get it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
