Re: [PATCH] per-cpu slab

Dave Jones (dave@denial.force9.co.uk)
8 Jun 2000 20:45:50 GMT

Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com> wrote:
> If you want to benchmark the code: disable SLAB_DEBUG_SUPPORT &
> SLAB_STATS, otherwise you'll see a huge slowdown: double free detection
> is now always on, and red zoning is also enabled (SLAB_FORCED_DEBUG).

This reminded me of something I was curious about recently.
What exactly is red-zoning? I understand slab-poisoning,
but couldn't figure out what red-zoning actually does.

regards,

-- 
Dave.


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