linux/include
Davidlohr Bueso f3713fd9cf ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues
Commit 93e6f119c0 ("ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and
locations") added global hardcoded limits to the amount of message
queues that can be created.  While these limits are per-namespace,
reality is that it ends up breaking userspace applications.
Historically users have, at least in theory, been able to create up to
INT_MAX queues, and limiting it to just 1024 is way too low and dramatic
for some workloads and use cases.  For instance, Madars reports:

 "This update imposes bad limits on our multi-process application.  As
  our app uses approaches that each process opens its own set of queues
  (usually something about 3-5 queues per process).  In some scenarios
  we might run up to 3000 processes or more (which of-course for linux
  is not a problem).  Thus we might need up to 9000 queues or more.  All
  processes run under one user."

Other affected users can be found in launchpad bug #1155695:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/1155695

Instead of increasing this limit, revert it entirely and fallback to the
original way of dealing queue limits -- where once a user's resource
limit is reached, and all memory is used, new queues cannot be created.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reported-by: Madars Vitolins <m@silodev.com>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-25 15:25:45 -08:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-processor', 'acpi-hotplug', 'acpi-init', 'acpi-pm' and 'acpica' 2014-01-29 11:47:18 +01:00
asm-generic mm: Use ptep/pmdp_set_numa() for updating _PAGE_NUMA bit 2014-02-17 11:19:36 +11:00
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linux ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues 2014-02-25 15:25:45 -08:00
math-emu math-emu: fix floating-point to integer overflow detection 2014-01-07 18:36:24 -06:00
media [media] saa6588: add support for non-blocking mode 2014-01-07 07:42:19 -02:00
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net net: sctp: Fix a_rwnd/rwnd management to reflect real state of the receiver's buffer 2014-02-17 00:16:56 -05:00
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target target: Simplify command completion by removing CMD_T_FAILED flag 2014-02-12 15:14:30 -08:00
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uapi Merge tag 'vmwgfx-fixes-3.14-2014-02-18' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux into drm-fixes 2014-02-19 08:21:02 +10:00
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