Re: Benchmarks (was Re: Hooking into Linux using the LTT)

From: jmjonesat_private
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 10:10:22 PDT

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    Greg KH Wrote:
    
    > Remember the LSM lives in kernel space along
    > with the rest of the kernel, so it can touch any part of kernel memory
    > that it wants to, even if we "hide" it.  Also any thing that implements
    > this would cause the way to call the hooks to slow down.
    
    Quite repectfully, isn't that in the domain of the module, not the
    interface?  If the module adds value to the point the slow-down is 
    worthwhile, why not let it?
    
    J. Melvin Jones
    
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