[PATCH] Replacement of IPC char* context to sid for improved performance

[Dustin Kirkland]

On 3/31/06, Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>         - This code compiles cleanly, though I was not able to run my
>         built kernel due to a seemingly unrelated error that surfaced
>         during 'make install':
>
> Steve, if you could (a) take a close look at this patch and ensure that
> I'm closely following your model, and (b) build this patch and run
> similar performance benchmarks, that would be great.  I'm traveling
> tomorrow and will be out of pocket for the next few days.

Ok, I rebuilt as suggested with filesystems compiled in and the
unrelated problems were solved.  I was able to build this patch
cleanly, boot the kernel, audit ipc operations and collect object
context labels.

I'll have to leave the exercise for Steve to prove the performance gain...


:-Dustin