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