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

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 5/6] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS for better disambiguation
Date 2016-06-15 19:50 +0200
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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.

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[RFC PATCH-tip v2 5/6] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS for better disambiguation Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> - 2016-06-15 00:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 5/6] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS  for better disambiguation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-15 19:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 5/6] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS  for better disambiguation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-15 19:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v2 5/6] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS  for better disambiguation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-16 00:00 +0200

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