Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit

[Kyle Moffett]

On Apr 01, 2007, at 14:36:11, devzero@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Blame on the dual meaning of max_loop that it uses currently: to
> > initialize a set of loop devices and as a side effect, it also sets
> > the upper limit.  People are complaining about the former constrain,
> > isn't it?  Does anyone uses the 2nd meaning of upper limit?
> >
> > - Ken
>
> what sense would it make to set an upper limit at all?
>
> we`re so happy to have none anymore :)

Well, the point of an upper limit might be to keep loop devices from  
chewing up too much memory on a system.  IE: To fail allocating more  
loopdevs before you run OOM and start killing random userspace  
processes.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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