On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Actually, slab is using RCU to provide type safety to those slab users > who request it. Typesafety is a side effect. The main idea here is that the object can still be accessed in RCU sections after another processor frees the object. We guarantee that the object is not freed but it may be reused for another object within the RCU period. Can we have a name that expresses all of that properly? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
