linux-kernel - Re: ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste of memory?

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Message-ID: <20101016192027.GA6883@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:20:27 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ibm.com>,
	warthog9@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, devel@...ts.fedoraprojet.org
Subject: Re: ima: use of radix tree cache indexing == massive waste of memory?

Besides the algorithmic problems with ima, why is kernel.org using
IMA to start with?  Except for IBM looking for a reason to jusity why
TPM isn't a completely waster of ressources it's pointless.  And it was
only merged under the premise that it would not affect innocent normal
users.

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