Re: [RFC 00/12] module: avoid userspace pressure on unwanted allocations

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Mar 24 2023 - 19:41:28 EST


On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 4:27 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> A magic values of 20 is completely empirical.

I suspect a magic value is fine in this context. I do not believe that
"hundreds of concurrent module loads" is a valid real-life load. It
sounds more like a "systemd does horrible things at startup".

20 sounds plenty big enough to me.

But I guess this is one of those "only real life will tell".

Linus