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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:21:59 -0800 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 2/2] mempool: fix first round failure behavior Hello, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> wrote: > For blkio to use these percpu mempool, I guess we shall have to change this > notion that an allocated object from mempool is returned to the pool soon. > We might not be returning these per cpu stat objects to mempool for a very > long time (These will be returned to pool only when somebody deletes the > cgroup). I'm almost done with it and it can behave as allocation buffer which is filled from more permissible context and consumed in more constricted one and async filling kicks the waiting allocator so I think we should be fine. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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