On 08/27/14 at 10:25am, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, WANG Chao wrote: > > > Mergeable slab can be changed to unmergeable after tuning its sysfs > > interface, for example echo 1 > trace. But the sysfs kobject with the unique > > name will be still there. > > Hmmm... Merging should be switched off if any debugging features are > enabled. Maybe we need to disable modifying debug options for an active > cache? This could cause other issues as well since the debug options will > then apply to multiple caches.
Yes, currently merging is already switched off if there's any debug flag. It sounds a bit overkill to me to disable runtime configuration. I don't know how many people out there would trace a mergeable (multiple) caches. Well it sounds better if we give them the chance to that... Thanks WANG Chao -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
