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Message-ID: <7e58e73d-4173-49fe-8f05-38a3699bc2c1@kernel.dk>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:52:57 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: paulmck@...nel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
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 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple
 kmem_cache_free callback

On 6/12/24 4:37 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> [PATCH 09/14] block: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
> 	I don't see a kmem_cache_destroy(), but then again, I also don't
> 	see the kmem_cache_create().  Unless someone can see what I am
> 	not seeing, let's wait.

It's in that same file:

blk_ioc_init()

the cache itself never goes away, as the ioc code is not unloadable. So
I think the change there should be fine.

-- 
Jens Axboe


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