Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:13:47 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: PREEMPT_RCU breaks anon_vma locking ? |
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Two, in his SLUB thread it sounds like he's toying with mixing up kmem > caches of similar sizes: that seems a really bad idea to me (for reasons > Andi and others have made) and I expect it'll get dropped; but in case > not, let's note that the anon_vma cache is one which would fare very > badly from getting mixed in with others (lock would no longer remain > a lock, list would no longer remain a list, across that race).
Dont worry DESTROY_BY_RCU slabs wont be mixed with those not marked DESTROY_BY_RCU. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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