Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add SLAB allocator understanding.

[Ales Novak <alnovak at suse dot cz>]

On 2016-2-1 23:29, Doug Evans wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Kieran Bingham <kieranbingham@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is interesting work!
> >
> > I had been discussing how we might achieve managing this with Jan @
> > FOSDEM yesterday.
> >
> > I believe a python implementation of this could be possible, and then
> > this code can live in the Kernel, and be split across architecture
> > specific layers where necessary to implement handling userspace
> > application boundaries from the Kernel Awareness.
>
> Keeping application specific code with the application instead of gdb
> is definitely a worthy goal.
> [one can quibble over whether linux is an application of course,
> but that's just terminology]

Yeah, you're right. Yet if we're talking about the SLAB in particular - 
considering with how many objects simultaneously has this subsystem to 
cope, I'm afraid that adding any extra overhead (e.g. the Pythonish) will 
be just painful.

It's a pitty that gdb cannot be extended dynamically, afaics.

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Ales Novak