On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:

> > Hrm.... Bad. Maybe drop the checks for the debug options that can be
> > configured when merging slabs? They do not influence the object layout
> > per definition.
>
> I don't understand that. Debug options do changes in object layout.

Only some debug options change the object layout and those are alrady
forbidden for caches with objects.

> Since they add significant performance overhead and cannot be undone in 
> runtime
> it's unlikely that anyone who uses them don't care about merging after that.

Those that do not affect the object layout can be undone.

> Also I don't see how merging could affect debugging in positive way
> (except debugging bugs in merging logic itself).

The problem here is that debugging is switched on for slabs that are
already merged right?


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