Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:38:45 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] IMA: move read/write counters into struct inode |
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* Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> Executive summary of the day's work: > Yesterday morning: 944 bytes per inode in core > Yesterday night: 24 bytes per inode in core > Tonight: 4 bytes per inode in core. > > That's a x236 time reduction in memory usage. No I didn't even start looking at a > freezer. Which could bring that 4 down to 0, but would add a scalability penalty > on all inodes when IMA was enabled.
Why not use inode->i_security intelligently? That already exists so that way it's 0 bytes.
Thanks,
Ingo
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