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From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Chandramouleeswaran,
	Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>, "Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] SELinux: Increase ebitmap_node size for 64-bit configuration
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:59:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13877462.KLqXKMuvjE@sifl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DDA8E0.4030001@tycho.nsa.gov>

On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 02:33:04 PM Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 06/05/2013 05:15 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> > Currently, the ebitmap_node structure has a fixed size of 32 bytes. On
> > a 32-bit system, the overhead is 8 bytes, leaving 24 bytes for being
> > used as bitmaps. The overhead ratio is 1/4.
> > 
> > On a 64-bit system, the overhead is 16 bytes. Therefore, only 16 bytes
> > are left for bitmap purpose and the overhead ratio is 1/2. With a
> > 3.8.2 kernel, a boot-up operation will cause the ebitmap_get_bit()
> > function to be called about 9 million times. The average number of
> > ebitmap_node traversal is about 3.7.
> > 
> > This patch increases the size of the ebitmap_node structure to 64
> > bytes for 64-bit system to keep the overhead ratio at 1/4. This may
> > also improve performance a little bit by making node to node traversal
> > less frequent (< 2) as more bits are available in each node.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
> 
> Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

Looks good to me too.  Merged, built, and tested okay too.

 * git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_next

> > ---
> > 
> >   security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.h |    8 +++++++-
> >   1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.h b/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.h
> > index e7eb3a9..712c8a7 100644
> > --- a/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.h
> > +++ b/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.h
> > @@ -16,7 +16,13 @@
> > 
> >   #include <net/netlabel.h>
> > 
> > -#define EBITMAP_UNIT_NUMS	((32 - sizeof(void *) - sizeof(u32))	\
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> > +#define	EBITMAP_NODE_SIZE	64
> > +#else
> > +#define	EBITMAP_NODE_SIZE	32
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +#define EBITMAP_UNIT_NUMS	((EBITMAP_NODE_SIZE-sizeof(void
> > *)-sizeof(u32))\
> > 
> >   					/ sizeof(unsigned long))
> >   
> >   #define EBITMAP_UNIT_SIZE	BITS_PER_LONG
> >   #define EBITMAP_SIZE		(EBITMAP_UNIT_NUMS * EBITMAP_UNIT_SIZE)
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-10 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-05 21:15 [PATCH v2 1/2] SELinux: reduce overhead of mls_level_isvalid() function call Waiman Long
2013-06-05 21:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] SELinux: Increase ebitmap_node size for 64-bit configuration Waiman Long
2013-07-10 18:33   ` Stephen Smalley
2013-07-10 19:59     ` Paul Moore [this message]
2013-06-07 18:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] SELinux: reduce overhead of mls_level_isvalid() function call Stephen Smalley
2013-06-07 19:50   ` Waiman Long

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