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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2007 20:27:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patch
 added to -mm tree

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is quite a nice way to mitigate some RCU freeing
> overheads for small objects, so I'd expect it may see wider use in
> future. Maybe all those users would be fine too, but it's a bit nasty
> to have already tricky RCU semantics deviate...

Signal handling is using RCU too right?

> > I think if we want RCU to actually work, we want to run ->dtor in
> > __kmem_cache_free?
> 
> Yeah, thinko... thanks.

According to SLAB code: RCU cannot have a dtor.

kmem_cache_create()

     if (flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)
                BUG_ON(dtor);

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