Re: Potential fix for fdtable badness.

From: Vadim Lobanov
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 22:39:57 EST


On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:31, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:08:18 -0700
>
> Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Would you prefer me to resend a fixed patch #4, or a new fix (#5) on top
> > of what's in your tree?
>
> Incremental updates are preferred.
>
> > diff -Npru old/fs/file.c new/fs/file.c
> > --- old/fs/file.c 2006-10-10 18:58:21.000000000 -0700
> > +++ new/fs/file.c 2006-10-10 19:01:03.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -164,9 +164,8 @@ static struct fdtable * alloc_fdtable(un
> > * the fdarray into page-sized chunks: starting at a quarter of a page,
> > * and growing in powers of two from there on.
> > */
> > - nr++;
> > nr /= (PAGE_SIZE / 4 / sizeof(struct file *));
> > - nr = roundup_pow_of_two(nr);
> > + nr = roundup_pow_of_two(nr + 1);
> > nr *= (PAGE_SIZE / 4 / sizeof(struct file *));
> > if (nr > NR_OPEN)
> > nr = NR_OPEN;
>
> Like that.

I'll wrap the fixes up in incremental patches once the problem has been
eradicated.
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