On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:12:28 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Eric and I discussed bumping up the default. I would have
liked to have
> > seen somewhere between 320 and 512, but that default would make the
> > embedded folks unhappy and I don't really want to get into the more
> > complex idea of having it guess what type of system it is trying to
> > configure to give a smaller number for embedded systems (which aren't
> > all small) and bigger ones to servers (which aren't all big).
>
> What about making it a compile time choice in the kernel config? I
> suggested making a compile time option, distributions can bump that up
> to 512, the default is enough and it can be tuned. Embedded can make the
> default whatever they want, too.
Eric and I had discussed that too, and I understand there is
considerable pushback to adding to kconfig, so that option would be
harder to get accepted.
So how does making the backlog value of 0 be unlimited solve the problem?
-Steve