Re: [PATCH] /proc/locks bugfix

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 20:01:33 EST


On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 11:37:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> The 2.3.9x file locking code is fairly broken anyway. Actually going over
> it with a large pickaxe wouldnt do any harm. Putting in resource limits
> and fixing the N^2 and worse algorithms would also help no end.

`A large pickaxe' is a pretty good description of what I've done to it.
It's not ready yet. N^2 has at least been reduced to M^2; I'm not sure
if it really justifies a hash table to get it down to M.

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