Re: ACL performance again

[Stephan Siano <stephan.siano@suse.de>]

On Monday, 7. January 2002 20:35, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 12:25 AM 2002-01-07, Stephan Siano wrote:
> >On Friday, 4. January 2002 19:40, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> >> At 08:57 AM 2002-01-04, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> >> >I should clarify:   For the most part OpenLDAP ACM granularity
> >> >is attribute level.  But, due to certain directives, the
> >> >granularity must be treated as if it where value granularity.
> >> >If these directives are not in use, then the granularity is
> >> >attribute level.
> >>
> >> In looking at the code, there is normally a call to
> >> access_allow() for the target without any values followed
> >> by one call to access_allow for the target with each value.
> >>
> >> One could pass out a from the first call the pointer to the
> >> first ACL which is value specific.  If this pointer was
> >> NULL, then the access_allow() result for the target without
> >> any values would be applied to targets regardless of the
> >> value.  If non-NULL, the pointer would be provided on the
> >> each per value call and used to jump start processing.
> >
> >Good idea.
>
> Unfornately, I don't have time to implement this.  Volunteers
> welcomed.

OK, I will see what I can do. I got most of it working in the HEAD version to 
see whether it gives a performance increase for my customer's case (it does), 
but some cases are not handeled yet. How should I submit the patches? Via the 
ITS?

Yours
Stephan Siano

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