Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:37:45 +0800 | From | Yi Yang <> | Subject | Re: Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3 |
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Arjan van de Ven 写道: > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 22:14 +0800, yang.y.yi@gmail.com wrote: > >> On 3/24/06, David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: >> >>> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> >>> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:59:01 +0100 >>> >>> >>>> then make the syslog part optional.. if it's not already! >>>> >>> Regardless I still think the filesystem events connector is a useful >>> facility. >>> >>> Audit just has way too much crap in it, and it's so much nicer to have >>> tiny modules that are optimized for specific areas of activity over >>> something like audit that tries to do everything. >>> >>> >> the filesystem events connector is small and has low overhead, it only >> focuses on >> activities in the filesystem >> > > ... so much that it's not useful for antivirus at least. > And your claim that audit has big overhead.. can you substantiate that? > I mean, this code has big overhead too in principle, the biggest > bottleneck is the sending-to-userspace, and that's the same in both. > sending to userspace is common for audit and the filesystem events connector, audit has many branches to process before sending audit result, it is real big overhead. > > >
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