[RFC][PATCH 2/2] file system auditing (#6U3)

Serge Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Apr 6 14:22:49 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:30 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I believe that there is already an implementation of such a hash table
> floating around, because it was once suggested for the i_security field.
> Serge, do you have one?

I do have still have a patch laying around from october, but I notice
that it was entirely protected by a spinlock.  If we in fact decide to
switch to using a hash table, it would seem worthwhile to switch to an
rcu based hash table, as there should be very few writes.

-serge
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Serge Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>




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