On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Mel Gorman wrote: > Christoph is opposed to removing it because of cache-hotness issues more > so than use-after-free concerns. The refcount is needed with or without > SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU. The issue is only performance. If we can preserve the cache hotness in a different way (or do things in a completely different manner) then its fine. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>