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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	zohar@us.ibm.com, warthog9@kernel.org, david@fromorbit.com,
	jmorris@namei.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca, hpa@zytor.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IMA: move read/write counters into struct inode
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:25:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287588335.2530.296.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101020151555.GC22271@elte.hu>

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 17:15 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * 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,
> > 
> > It still wouldn't be 0 bytes since there would be a 1-1 mapping from inode to 
> > i_security structs. [...]
> 
> Only for IMA-affected files, right?

No, we need to keep the open read counter even for non-IMA-affected
files in case we later determine that it is IMA-affected.  That's the 4
bytes I have today, which I said could be eliminated with a freezer that
calculated it when IMA was enabled, but isn't something I'm looking at
right now....

-Eric

-Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-19  1:16 [PATCH 1/3] IMA: move read/write counters into struct inode Eric Paris
2010-10-19  1:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] IMA: only allocate iint when needed Eric Paris
2010-10-19  1:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache Eric Paris
2010-10-19  1:30 ` [PATCH 1/3] IMA: move read/write counters into struct inode Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-19  2:14   ` Eric Paris
2010-10-19  7:39     ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-19 16:24       ` Eric Paris
2010-10-19 16:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-19  8:39     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-19  2:46 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-19 15:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-19 16:36   ` Eric Paris
2010-10-19 16:55     ` Al Viro
2010-10-19 17:03       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-19 17:28         ` Al Viro
2010-10-19 18:16           ` Mimi Zohar
2010-10-20 13:10             ` John Stoffel
2010-10-20 13:36               ` Al Viro
2010-10-20 14:09                 ` John Stoffel
2010-10-19 19:11           ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-10-20  3:15             ` Al Viro
2010-10-20 17:38               ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-10-19 22:49         ` Eric Paris
2010-10-20 14:38           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-20 14:46             ` Eric Paris
2010-10-20 15:15               ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-20 15:25                 ` Eric Paris [this message]
2010-10-21 16:15                 ` Casey Schaufler
2010-10-22  8:48                   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-22 17:50                     ` Casey Schaufler

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