Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:16:47 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slub: reduce overhead of slub_debug |
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:58:06PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> SLUB debugging is useful only to diagnose issues or test new code, nobody > is going to be enabling it in production environment. We don't need 30 > new lines of code that make one thing slightly faster
During five of the six months of development, Fedora kernels are built with slub debugging forced on. And it turns up problems every single release.
Having the impact of this be lower is very desirable. If this doesn't get merged, I'd be tempted to carry it in Fedora regardless for this reason.
Dave
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