Re: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] nfds limit for poll() raised to 131 million (is that enough?)

From: Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 11:52:58 EST

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Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Well, do_poll() only walks through one element at a time so it can
> walk through the (say, linked list?) of slab'd pollfd objects one at a
> time.

If you're feeling really dirty, the slab allocator's free list provides
objects ready linked ;-)

-- Jamie

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