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Message-ID: <20080325075403.GH2170@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:54:03 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
Cc:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH prototype] [0/8] Predictive bitmaps for ELF executables

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:42:14PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net> wrote:
> >  The limit is filesystem dependent -- I think ext2/3s is something like
> >  4k total for attribute names and values per inode.
> >
> >  That's more than enough space for the largest executable on my system
> >  (emacs at 36788160 bytes) which would have a 1123 byte predictive bitmap
> >  (plus space for the name e.g. "system.predictive_bitmap"). The bitmap
> >  also could be compressed.
> 
> 4k attribute means support for about 32768 pages.  That's a total of
> 134MB.  I think this qualifies as sufficient.  Also, I assume the
> attribute limit is just a "because nobody needed more so far" limit
> and could in theory be extended.

There is still the additional seek. Large xattrs tend to be out of line
from the inode.

-Andi
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