[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] Switch caches notification dynamically

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> The /sys/slab/<name>/cache_notify attribute controls
> whether the cache <name> is to be accounted or not.
> 
> For the reasons described before kmalloc caches cannot
> be turned on.

It looks like the patch is forbidding to turn the notification off? On is 
okay even if there are already objects present? Full slabs may exist that 
cannot be accounted for now. I guess that is okay because we only want 
to track new allocations?