DEVFS related message

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030814.205649.71088058.haro at h4.dion.ne.jp>, Munehiro Matsuda writ
es:
>Hi All,
>
>I just got following DEVFS related message with
>this mornings current.
>
>DEVFS Overflow table with 32768 entries allocated when 925 in use
>
>Anybody seen this?

This is mostly harmless.

When DEVFS initially was integrated the locking situation was rather
tricky and malloc failures therefor not easy to handle.  Therefore
DEVFS uses a compile time array of pointers to its inodes.

If this table seems to be running out, (less than 100 free entries)
an "overflow" table will be attempted allocated which can contain
more entries.

You can adjust both the regular and the overflow table sizes with
compile time constants NDEVFSINO and NDEVFSOVERFLOW.

When more of the kernel has been de-Giantized, this code can be
revisited and these constants can probably be eliminated.

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