[PATCH 1/5] Add notification about some major slab events

Balbir Singh balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Oct 1 06:03:27 PDT 2007


Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Balbir Singh wrote:
>> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>>> harsh, hard to review since the definition of the above function
>>>> is not known.
>>> What do you mean by "not known"? I is declared above :)
>>>
>> I meant, we only know the stub weak functions. Does slub_*_notify
>> fail only on fatal errors? If not, then the failure might be
> 
> It depends on the listener of the event when to fail. The slub
> notification mechanism is not the accounting at all it just
> sends notifications.
> 

OK. My concern is that a listener can fail allocation of a slub
object.

>> unfair.
>>
> 


-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL


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