Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs, Take 2

From: Bill Wendling (wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 12:54:00 EST


Also sprach Manfred Spraul:
} Bill Wendling wrote:
} >
} + else
} + fds = (struct pollfd *)vmalloc(size);
} +
}
} vmalloc() & vfree() need lock_kernel(). Tigran wrote a patch, but that
} patch is not (yet?) part of the standard kernel.
}
If you look carefully towards the top and bottom of sys_poll(), you'll
see the {un}lock_kernel() calls.

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|| Bill Wendling			wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu

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