Re: Linux 2.6.35

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Aug 03 2010 - 05:49:50 EST


On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:28:23PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK, vfs-scale-working branch now has commits to enable rcu-walk aware
> d_revalidate, permission, and check_acl in the filesystems, and
> implements a basic rcu-walk aware scheme for generic/posix acls and

Cool. I was just looking at that.

> I was under the impression that ACLs on directories are not that common,
> so maybe this is as far as we need to go for now anyway.

Yes it shouldn't be common normally. I think the common case for distros
is just a few ACLs in /dev. Of course you never know for
specific end user workloads.

-Andi
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