Re: Performance degradation measurement [was Re: [PATCH 06/37] Security: Separate task security context from task_struct [ver #34]]

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Sun Mar 23 2008 - 01:19:00 EST


On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:08 -0000, David Howells said:

(Sorry - finally catching up)

> (1) SELinux enabled, none of the security patches:
>
> (gdb) p (1.119+1.110+1.104+1.106+1.095+1.112+1.094+1.091+1.112)/9
> $3 = 1.104777777777777

> (4) LSM/SELinux disabled, none of the security patches:
>
> (gdb) p (1.121+1.136+1.137+1.121+1.122+1.131+1.121+1.131+1.118)/9
> $7 = 1.1264444444444437

What's up with *that*? The *fastest* run with it disabled is 1.118, and
the *slowest* with it enabled is 1.119. At that point, I have to wonder
what we're really measuring here....

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