On Tue, 14 May 2019, Roman Gushchin wrote: > To make this possible we need to introduce a new percpu refcounter > for non-root kmem_caches. The counter is initialized to the percpu > mode, and is switched to atomic mode after deactivation, so we never > shutdown an active cache. The counter is bumped for every charged page > and also for every running allocation. So the kmem_cache can't > be released unless all allocations complete. Increase refcounts during each allocation? Looks to be quite heavy processing.
