Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752516AbZIHWm0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:42:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751956AbZIHWmZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:42:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.253]:58131 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751089AbZIHWmY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:42:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@V090114053VZO-1 To: "Paul E. McKenney" cc: Eric Dumazet , Pekka Enberg , Zdenek Kabelac , Patrick McHardy , Robin Holt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jesper Dangaard Brouer , Linux Netdev List , Netfilter Developers Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check() In-Reply-To: <20090908222036.GM6753@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <4A9FCDC6.3060003@gmail.com> <4A9FDA72.8060001@gmail.com> <4AA00400.1030005@gmail.com> <20090903231757.GP6761@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090904204335.GG6751@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090908222036.GM6753@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 15 On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Are you saying that people have already asked you for additional > variants of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU? If so, please don't keep them a secret! > Otherwise, experience indicates that it is best to wait for the new uses, > because they usually aren't quite what one might expect. No direct request but I have seen the network developers discover these features and their caching benefits over the last year. It is likely that they will try to push it into more components of the net subsystem. -- 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/