Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Send audit/procinfo/cgroup data in socket-levelcontrol message

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jan 15 2014 - 15:17:37 EST


From: Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:01:46 +0100

> Changes introduced in this patchset can also increase performance
> of such server-like processes, because current way of opening and
> parsing /proc/$PID/* files is much more expensive than receiving these
> metadata using SCM.

The problem with this line of reasoning is that these changes will
hurt everyone else, because these new control messages are sent
unconditionally, whether the application is interested in them or not.

I really don't like this cost tradeoff, it's terrible, and therefore
I'm really not inclined to apply these patches, sorry.
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