Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:00:44 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check() and SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU |
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On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:45:43PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > on a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU cache, there is no need to try to optimize this > > rcu_barrier() call, unless we want superfast reboot/halt sequences... > > I stilll think that the action to quiesce rcu is something that the caller > of kmem_cache_destroy must take care of.
Why?
Thanx, Paul
> Could you split this into two patches: One that addresses the poison and > another that deals with rcu? >
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