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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>, Christian Ehrhardt <lk@c--e.de>,
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       Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface
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* Serge E. Hallyn (serue@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> Actually, given that when lsm was being introduced, lsm seemed to
> improve performance overall, have you taken any measurements to show
> that this is actually the case?  Of course it makes sense that it would,
> but witjout measurements we do not know.

Yes, it does.  I have measured it as have others (esp. after Kurt
Garloff pointed out issues on ia64).

thanks,
-chris