netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:04:19 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
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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 Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 04:52:57PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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.

Thank you, Jens!  (And to Jakub for motivating me to go look.)

So to update the scorecared, 05/14, 09/14, 11/14 and 12/14 are OK and
can go ahead.

							Thanx, Paul