linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] fs: Use RCU freeing of inodes via SLAB_DESTROY_BY

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Message-ID: <20101101153137.GA28791@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:31:37 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] fs: Use RCU freeing of inodes via SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 04:33:43PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> Change the inode caches to use RCU freed inodes via the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
> method. While touching the slab creation functions for the inode caches, fix
> all of the slabs to use consistent flags by defining SLAB_INODES to be the set
> of common inode cache flags

I think this should be done as a separate preparatory patch.

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