Re: [PATCH] audit: allow unlimited backlog queue

Steve Grubb
2014-01-15T17:24:04Z

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:12:28 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > Eric and I discussed bumping up the default. I would have liked to have
> > > seen somewhere between 320 and 512, but that default would make the
> > > embedded folks unhappy and I don't really want to get into the more
> > > complex idea of having it guess what type of system it is trying to
> > > configure to give a smaller number for embedded systems (which aren't
> > > all small) and bigger ones to servers (which aren't all big).
> >
> > What about making it a compile time choice in the kernel config? I
> > suggested making a compile time option, distributions can bump that up
> > to 512, the default is enough and it can be tuned. Embedded can make the
> > default whatever they want, too.
>
> Eric and I had discussed that too, and I understand there is
> considerable pushback to adding to kconfig, so that option would be
> harder to get accepted.

So how does making the backlog value of 0 be unlimited solve the problem?

-Steve