Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.5.70] Static tunable semvmx and semaem

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 6 Jun 2003 06:12:38 -0700


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:31:35PM +0530, Arvind Kandhare wrote:
> As we have discussed earlier, making it dynamic can cause some race
> conditions in the system
> (Please refer thread "Changing SEMVMX to a tunable parameter" on 28 May
> 2003).

I'm sorry about the confusion. I forgot the earlier thread. Please
disregard my earlier comments wrt. dynamism, as they appear to be in
conflict with other notions.

I think the __setup()'s should be moved to ipc/sem.c; otherwise I think
manfred's the right person to do the review here and I'll back off.

-- wli
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