Re: SELINUX performance issues

[James Morris]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> The biggest problem is the global lock:
> 
> avc_has_perm_noaudit:
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&avc_lock, flags);
> 
> Any chance we can get rid of it? Maybe with RCU?

Yes, known problem.  I plan on trying RCU soon, Rik was looking at a 
seqlock approach.


- James
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James Morris
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