linux-kernel - Re: [TOMOYO #10 (linux-next) 4/8] Memory and pathname management functions.

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Message-ID: <48EDB01E.4030501@nttdata.co.jp>
Date:	Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:17:50 +0900
From:	Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@...data.co.jp>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Toshiharu Harada <haradats@...data.co.jp>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [TOMOYO #10 (linux-next) 4/8] Memory and pathname management
 functions.

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>> +
>> +#define MAX_HASH 256
>> +
> Maybe based on typical workload and usage but
> It's better to write why hash size is fixed size of "256", when you
> use hash. 
TOMOYO uses this hash only when appending a string into the string 
table. Frequency of appending strings is very low. So we don't need 
large (e.g. 64k) hash size. 256 will be sufficient.

I'll append above as a comment.

Regards,

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