Commit 3ea7f5e2 authored Apr 16, 2015 by Jean Delvare Committed by Linus Torvalds Apr 17, 2015

fork_init: update max_threads comment



The comment explaining what value max_threads is set to is outdated.  The
maximum memory consumption ratio for thread structures was 1/2 until
February 2002, then it was briefly changed to 1/16 before being set to 1/8
which we still use today.  The comment was never updated to reflect that
change, it's about time.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 35f71bc0

kernel/fork.c

+2 −2

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		@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ void __init fork_init(unsigned long mempages)

		/*
		* The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe
		* value: the thread structures can take up at most half
		* of memory.
		* value: the thread structures can take up at most one
		* eighth of the memory.
		*/
		max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);