Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759051AbYJVUNZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:13:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754497AbYJVUNA (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:13:00 -0400 Received: from fxip-0047f.externet.hu ([88.209.222.127]:42378 "EHLO pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755254AbYJVUM7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:12:59 -0400 To: cl@linux-foundation.org CC: miklos@szeredi.hu, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-reply-to: (message from Christoph Lameter on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:54:30 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: SLUB defrag pull request? References: <1223883004.31587.15.camel@penberg-laptop> <1223883164.31587.16.camel@penberg-laptop> <200810132354.30789.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <48F378C6.7030206@linux-foundation.org> <48FC9CCC.3040006@linux-foundation.org> <48FCCC72.5020202@linux-foundation.org> <48FCD7CB.4060505@linux-foundation.org> <48FCE1C4.20807@linux-foundation.org> <48FE6306.6020806@linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:11:56 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 637 Lines: 19 On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Why? The kmem_cache_free() doesn't touch the contents of the object, > > does it? > > Because filesystem code may be running on other processors which may be > freeing the dentry. You are not actually listening to what I'm saying. Please read the question carefully again. Thanks, Miklos -- 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/