Re: F37 proposal: SELinux Parallel Autorelabel (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:42:35PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SELinux_Parallel_Autorelabel
> 
> This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
> process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
> community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
> by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
> 
> 
> == Summary ==
> After a system's SELinux mode is switched from disabled to enabled, or
> after an administrator runs `fixfiles onboot`, SELinux autorelabel
> will be run in parallel by default.
> 
> == Owner ==
> * Name: [[User:plautrba| Petr Lautrbach]]
> * Email: plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> SELinux tools `restorecon` and `fixfiles` recently gained the ability
> to relabel files in parallel using the `-T nthreads` option. This
> option is currently not used in the automatic relabel after reboot.
> When users want/need the parallel relabeling they have to specify the
> option explicitly (e.g. `fixfiles -T 0 onboot`). With this change `-T
> 0` (0 == use all available CPU cores) will be the default for
> `fixfiles onboot` and users will have to use `fixfiles -T 1 onboot` to
> force it to use only one thread.
> 
> The rationale is that when autorelabel runs, there are no other
> resource-intensive processes running on the system, so it's fine (and
> actually better) to use all available parallelism to speed up the task
> and get to a fully booted system faster.
> 
> 
> == Benefit to Fedora ==
> Faster reboot after switching back to an SELinux enabled system or
> when triggering autorelabel explicitly.
[...]
> == Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
> 
> 
> == How To Test ==
> # boot with SELinux disabled - add `selinux=0` to the kernel command line
> # reboot
> # store the time it took
> # run `fixfiles -T 1 onboot`
> # reboot
> # the latter reboot should take longer time
[...]

I wonder if we can use this in virt tools & virt-v2v:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/daemon/selinux-relabel.c

We actually use setfiles instead of fixfiles.  setfiles appears to
have no -T option unfortunately.  Is there a reason why setfiles
doesn't have / need this option?

Rich.

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