Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Sleeping in RCU list traversal | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:33:16 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 01:56 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> So, I don't need to grab a reference to "ptr" > because memory region pointed by "ptr" will never be kfree()ed. > And it is legal to use "ptr" after rcu_read_unlock() > because memory region pointed by "ptr" will never be kfree()ed.
Still think that is a very BAD (tm) idea. Esp since with the help of RCU there is hardly any performance loss of not doing proper deletes.
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