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SubjectRe: SELinux performance issue with large systems (32 cpus)
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On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 14:22, keith wrote:
> After some lock profiling (keeping track of what locks were last used
> and how many cycles were spent waiting) it became quite clean the the
> avc_lock was to blame. The avc_lock is a SELinux lock.

Thanks to work by Kaigai Kohei of NEC, the global avc spinlock has been
replaced by an RCU-based scheme. Those changes are in the -mm patches
(e.g. 2.6.10-rc2-mm3) and will hopefully go upstream after 2.6.10 is
released. There is also ongoing work on baseline performance.

--
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency

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