On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > We have gotten along fine with only SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU for almost > five years, so I think we are plenty fine with what we have. So, as > you say, "as the need arises". These were the glory years where SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU was only used for anonymous vmas. Now Eric has picked it up for the net subsystem. You may see the RCU use proliferate. The kmem_cache_destroy rcu barriers did not matter until SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU spread. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html