Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753273AbbHVOg7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:36:59 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f169.google.com ([209.85.223.169]:33208 "EHLO mail-io0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752093AbbHVOg5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:36:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1440240300-6206-1-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org> References: <1440240300-6206-1-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 07:36:56 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: rGryTx-kbQn_BABA1yngfQ1QQZY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm/vmalloc: Cache the /proc/meminfo vmalloc statistics From: Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm , Dave Hansen , Peter Zijlstra , David Rientjes , Rik van Riel , Rasmus Villemoes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 568 Lines: 14 On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Would something like this be acceptable (and is it correct)? I don't think any of this can be called "correct", in that the unlocked accesses to the cached state are clearly racy, but I think it's very much "acceptable". Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/