On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just one more thing. > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 10:01:07AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > ... >> > pool_info in spin lock context, made me allocate memory to get all >> > values upfront through allocation. >> > Now that the lock is going away, I can do what you have described above. > > So, this might be okay depending on the use case but it often becomes > painful to require sleeping context for freeing resources. If you're > certain that requiring sleeping context is okay for all paths, using a > single mutex is fine but *usually* it isn't a great idea. > At present charge and uncharge are from sleeping context. > > -- > tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
