Re: SELinux performance issue with large systems (32 cpus)

[Chris Wright]

* keith (kmannth@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I work with i386 16-way systems.  When hyperthreading is enabled they
> have 32 "cpus".  I recently did a quick performance check on with 2.6
> (as it turn out with a SElinux enabled) doing kernel builds.  

Have you tried any recent -mm kernel?  avc_lock was refactored to RCU
locking, and benchmarks shows it scales quite nicely now.

thanks,
-chris
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