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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2011-07-31 22:08:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2011-07-31 22:08:04 +0200 |
| commit | d134b00b9acca3fb054d7c88a5f5d562ecbb42d1 (patch) | |
| tree | ccc63647ec8a551289f26866ec86091e44266bad /drivers/block/Kconfig | |
| parent | loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation (diff) | |
| download | linux-d134b00b9acca3fb054d7c88a5f5d562ecbb42d1.tar.xz linux-d134b00b9acca3fb054d7c88a5f5d562ecbb42d1.zip | |
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop
devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services,
even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0
loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic
/dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free
devices.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index 717d6e4e18d3..57212c5235e2 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -256,6 +256,21 @@ config BLK_DEV_LOOP Most users will answer N here. +config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT + int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time" + depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP + default 8 + help + Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created + at init time. + + This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command + line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop. + + The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8) + is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be + dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface. + config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP tristate "Cryptoloop Support" select CRYPTO |