Re: [PATCH 0/5] LSM hook updates

Chris Wright
2005-08-26T16:41:51Z

* serue@us.ibm.com (serue@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> Here are some numbers on a 4way x86 - PIII 700Mhz with 1G memory (hmm,
> highmem not enabled). I should hopefully have a 2way ppc available
> later today for a pair of runs.

Thanks for running these numbers Serge.

> dbench and tbench were run 50 times each, kernbench and reaim 10 times
> each. Results are mean +/- 95% confidence half-interval. Kernel had
> selinux and capabilities compiled in.
>
> A little surprising: kernbench is improved, but dbench and tbench
> are worse - though within the 95% CI.

It is interesting. Would be good to see what happens with the cap_ bits
used in SELinux instead of secondary callout. Also, need to run ia64,
do you have an ia64 box?

thanks,
-chris