Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:08:39 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, arjan@infradead.org,
       yang.y.yi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthltc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.16 PATCH] Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:23:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
> >  Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:59:01 +0100
> > 
> >  > then make the syslog part optional.. if it's not already!
> > 
> >  Regardless I still think the filesystem events connector is a useful
> >  facility.
> 
> Why's that?
> 
> (I'd viewed it as a fun thing, but I haven't really seen much pull for it,
> and the scalability issues in there aren't trivial).

This module uses ratelimiting of event generation, so it will not hurt
performance, but probably this should be somehow tuned from userspace.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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