Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:59:11 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: threads-max observe limits |
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On Wed 18-09-19 09:15:41, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 17-09-19 12:26:18, Eric W. Biederman wrote: [...] > > b) Not being able to bump threads_max to the physical limit of > > the machine is very clearly a regression. > > ... exactly this part. The changelog of the respective patch doesn't > really exaplain why it is needed except of "it sounds like a good idea > to be consistent".
Any take on this Heinrich? If there really is not strong reasoning about the restricting user input then I will suggest reverting 16db3d3f1170 ("kernel/sysctl.c: threads-max observe limits")
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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