Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67;
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kfree_rcu() should use kfree_bulk() interface
To:     Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
        joe@perches.com, willy@infradead.org, brouer@redhat.com,
        linux-mm@kvack.org
References: <1522647064-27167-1-git-send-email-rao.shoaib@oracle.com>
 <1522647064-27167-3-git-send-email-rao.shoaib@oracle.com>
 <alpine.DEB.2.20.1804021217070.24404@nuc-kabylake>
From:   Rao Shoaib <rao.shoaib@oracle.com>
Message-ID: <d6a58a0d-be8b-44e9-29c7-ef2588afefbf@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Apr 2018 00:28:53 -0700
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/52.7.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1804021217070.24404@nuc-kabylake>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Language: en-US
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk


On 04/02/2018 10:20 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, rao.shoaib@oracle.com wrote:
>
>> kfree_rcu() should use the new kfree_bulk() interface for freeing
>> rcu structures as it is more efficient.
> It would be even better if this approach could also use
>
> 	kmem_cache_free_bulk()
>
> or
>
> 	kfree_bulk()
Sorry I do not understand your comment. The patch is using kfree_bulk() 
which is an inline function.

Shoaib