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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> > Is it necessary to mark all the existing slabs with SLAB_DEBUG? Would it 
> 
> Yup. Otherwise we can never receive a single event e.g. if we make 
> alloc/free in a loop, or similar, so that new slabs simply are not 
> created.

Right but on the other hand: If objects in these slabs are freed then your 
counters get decremented and may go negative.