linux-kernel - Re: SLUB defrag pull request?

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Date:	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:12:02 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Miklos Szeredi" <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	cl@...ux-foundation.org, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, hugh@...itas.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: SLUB defrag pull request?

Hi Miklos,

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:
>> Actually, when debugging is enabled, it's customary to poison the
>> object, for example (see free_debug_processing() in mm/slub.c). So we
>> really can't "easily ensure" that in the allocator unless we by-pass
>> all the current debugging code.
>
> Thank you, that does actually answer my question.  I would still think
> it's a good sacrifice to no let the dentries be poisoned for the sake
> of a simpler dentry defragmenter.

To be honest, I haven't paid enough attention to the discussion to see
how much simpler it would be. But I don't like the idea of forcibly
disabling debugging for slab caches because of a new core feature in
the allocator. Keep in mind that it's not just dentries we're talking
about here, we're defragmenting inodes as well.

                        Pekka
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