From: Jean Delvare Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:47:41 +0000 (-0700) Subject: fork_init: update max_threads comment X-Git-Tag: v4.1-rc1~102^2~41 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ea7f5e25ec271909451b7dc17be37581b888de6;p=linux.git fork_init: update max_threads comment The comment explaining what value max_threads is set to is outdated.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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index d778016ac1e3..c507e29bcb01 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -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);