Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:42:27 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc:     Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com>,
        Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>,
        Bryan Tan <bryantan@vmware.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Bob Pearson <rpearsonhpe@gmail.com>,
        Ariel Levkovich <lariel@nvidia.com>,
        Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Rename k[v]free_rcu() single argument to
 k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep()
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 03:34:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Still, I will replace that code back to a kfree() and rcu_synchonize() than
> to let that other name get in.

That will have a performance hit relaive to kfree_rcu_mightsleep().
If that's OK with you, sure, you can do that.

Personally, I don't have a lot of problem with that name, which is why
I ack'ed the change for ext4.

						- Ted