Re: Latest release of stacker

From: Serge Hallyn (serue@private)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 07:57:31 PST


No, unfortunately I don't have that data yet.  I need to set up a
selinux-capable system in our testing pool, then I will generate
numbers.

thanks,
-serge

PS - the filename of the tarball of patches on sf.net is stacker-
patches-feb22-05.tar.gz

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 10:25 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:48 -0600, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > www.sf.net/projects/lsm-stacker has a new update of the stacker
> > patches.  I've gone back to most things lockless for the sake of
> > performance.  See item # 4 under the updates for the RCU (-less)
> > info, and the file stacker_rcu_test.txt (in the latest
> > sourceforge release for some performance data) . See item # 2 for
> > the rwlock (-less) info.  Both require some extra knowledge from
> > modules writers which is not yet reflected in
> > Documentation/security-stacking.txt.
> 
> Also, does your performance data include a comparison of a vanilla
> 2.6.11-rc4-bk9 kernel (with SELinux+capabilities stacked in the existing
> manner) vs. with your patches and SELinux+cap_stack stacked via stacker?
> That is what we truly want to know - what overhead will this impose on
> existing SELinux systems.
> 
-- 
Serge Hallyn <serue@private>



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