Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:06 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > > Hmmm.. Maybe we could do that.... But what I had in mind was simply to 
> > > set a page flag (DebugSlab()) if you know in alloc_slab that the slab 
> > > should be only used for emergency allocation. If DebugSlab is set then the
> > > fastpath will not be called. You can trap all allocation attempts and 
> > > insert whatever fancy logic you want in the debug path since its not 
> > > performance critical.
> > 
> > I might have missed some detail when I looked at SLUB, but I did not see
> > how setting SlabDebug would trap subsequent allocations to that slab.
> 
> Ok its not evident in slab_alloc. But if SlabDebug is set then 
> page->lockless_list is always NULL and we always fall back to 
> __slab_alloc.

Ah, indeed, that is the detail I missed. Yes that would work out.

>  There we check for SlabDebug and go to the debug: label. 
> There you can insert any fancy processing you want.