Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > >>> Hmmmm... Okay I have seen multiple people who want to control slab >>> allocations and track memory for various reasons. Would it be possible to >>> come up with some hook that would allow a subscription to certain SLUB >>> events? That way multiple subsystems may track and maybe disallow certain >>> allocations in various contexts. >> Do you mean some more generic than just explicit call from slab_alloc, etc? >> Ok, I will work on it. > > Yes I guess an API in slub to register callbacks for these things. This > needs to include a way to control the granularity. Callbacks at the level > of slab allocations are likely not that performance critical. But some > uses may require control at the object level. There needs to be some way > to tell SLUB to disable the fast path for a particular allocated slab > because the API will police each individual allocation. > OK. I see. I will do my best to prepare the first version this week. Thanks, Pavel _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers