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| author | Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> | 2008-02-08 15:21:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-08 20:22:41 +0300 |
| commit | 20a8143eaa3300a58326156eaf43e03db0fd2cb6 (patch) | |
| tree | ee12300f417f0ecbaa4879b62a19a09423de76b3 /drivers/block/nbd.c | |
| parent | 53a7a1bb438245cd2ef9674b9af3a5201d7d7657 (diff) | |
| download | linux-20a8143eaa3300a58326156eaf43e03db0fd2cb6.tar.xz | |
NBD: remove limit on max number of nbd devices
Remove the arbitrary 128 device limit for NBD. nbds_max can now be set to
any number. In certain scenarios where devices are used sparsely we have
run into the 128 device limit.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/nbd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/nbd.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index ae3106045ee5..018753c59b8e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static unsigned int debugflags; #endif /* NDEBUG */ static unsigned int nbds_max = 16; -static struct nbd_device nbd_dev[MAX_NBD]; +static struct nbd_device *nbd_dev; /* * Use just one lock (or at most 1 per NIC). Two arguments for this: @@ -649,11 +649,9 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void) BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct nbd_request) != 28); - if (nbds_max > MAX_NBD) { - printk(KERN_CRIT "nbd: cannot allocate more than %u nbds; %u requested.\n", MAX_NBD, - nbds_max); - return -EINVAL; - } + nbd_dev = kcalloc(nbds_max, sizeof(*nbd_dev), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!nbd_dev) + return -ENOMEM; for (i = 0; i < nbds_max; i++) { struct gendisk *disk = alloc_disk(1); |