Re: [PATCH] Polling > 16000 FDs

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 16:56:36 EST


> > 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?

Just cover the 1Gb poll array DoS case and it should be fine

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