Re: Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3

[Yi Yang]

Arjan van de Ven 写道:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 22:14 +0800, yang.y.yi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   
>> On 3/24/06, David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>     
>>> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 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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