linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH -v4 12/14] fsnotify: add correlations between events

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Message-ID: <c6d9bea0812221206j3edef970t316f104274f961ce@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:06:08 -0500
From:	"C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@...top.org>
To:	"Eric Paris" <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org, zbr@...emap.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v4 12/14] fsnotify: add correlations between events

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com> wrote:
> A) this isn't a hot path, it's only when a file is renamed.

Yes, sorry, I misread the description of that patch to indicate that
you planned to include a newly-generated cookie in all fsevents.
Re-reading the patch I see that you are still only generating cookies
for renames.  But yeah, better cookie generation will help scalability
if you plan to use them more broadly in fanotify.
 --scott

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