Re: Clarifications of LSM API

From: Serge E. Hallyn (hallyn@private)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 08:59:51 PDT


> > This way, changes to the rest of the kernel are very minimal.  Change
> > some void * to void *[], and add a compile or boot-time option to set
> > NUM_LSM_MODULES.
> > 
> boot-time won't work unless you kmalloc. I'd say it's a good candidate for
> a config option.

Oh yeah  :-)

> > You can't count on alloc and free.
> >
> Ok. Any guesses about the actual usage statistics? If we look at the
> modules out there that use blobs, do they use all the blobs or just some,
> how often are the blobs accessed or updated, etc. I know hard numbers are
> hard to get, but some indication might be helpful to identify our needs.

I may try to add this analysis to the performance results I hope to send out
end of this month/early august.  I've got a list of at least 9 or 10 modules
I'll check.  If someone else gets a chance before then, all the better.

thanks,
-serge



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