Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs

From: Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 15:38:03 EST

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On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:27:11PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Instead, you need to pass a linked list of descriptors to do_poll, ideally
> using a linked list of single kernel pages. The big 128-kByte allocation
> will fail anyway, if the machine is tight on memory.

Any reason we couldn't vmalloc the in-kernel array when it gets too big?

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