Re: Speaking on malloc internals at FOSS.in

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing a talk on malloc internals at a conference in Bangalore
> called FOSS.in[1].  I have a slide on future plans or concerns, which
> include the following right now:
>
> * A second look at dynamic thresholds since they worsen fragmentation
>   for some cases
> * A look at measuring resource usage in the light of multiple arenas
> * Smarter controls on arena creation, like looking at RLIMIT_AS while
>   deciding number of arenas.
>
> The above are tentative ideas based on my experience, which is not
> even close to being as extensive as most people on this list.  Hence,
> I'd really appreciate feedback on this and also any additional ideas
> that anyone may have.  I'll obviously give credit for the ideas on my
> slides.

* Accepted concensus on opensource benchmarks to use for validating
allocator changes.
* Stable API that allows interaction with allocator running in an application.
  - Usable by a debugger, audit library etc.
* Application hook to control arena creation.
  - Can use allocator API and application specific information to make
decisions.
* Systemtap probes
  - What do we measure? What additional probes do we need?

That's just off the top of my head... hope it helps.

Cheers,
Carlos.