Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 5/6] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS for better disambiguation

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 06:48:08PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> even the reduced maximum of about 16k (32-bit) or 1G (64-bit) should
> be more than enough for the foreseeable future.

So what happens if I manage to create 16k+ threads on my 32bit kernel
and get them all to do mmap() or so at the same time.

That doesn't seem too far fetched.

Then again, with double that (the current limit) that doesn't seem
impossible either.