Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:04:20 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check() |
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On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > No direct request but I have seen the network developers discover these > > features and their caching benefits over the last year. It is likely that > > they will try to push it into more components of the net subsystem. > > So if they push it far enough, they might well decide that they need > a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU_BH, for example. Looks like seven bits left, > so unless I am missing something, should not be a huge problem should > this need arise.
I'd rather have the call_rcu in the slabs replaced by a function that can be set by the user. Then we can remove all rcu barriers from the code and the slabs could be used with any type of rcu functionality.
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