On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 06:41:14PM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Are you saying that people have already asked you for additional > > variants of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU? If so, please don't keep them a secret! > > Otherwise, experience indicates that it is best to wait for the new uses, > > because they usually aren't quite what one might expect. > > No direct request but I have seen the network developers discover these > features and their caching benefits over the last year. It is likely that > they will try to push it into more components of the net subsystem. So if they push it far enough, they might well decide that they need a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU_BH, for example. Looks like seven bits left, so unless I am missing something, should not be a huge problem should this need arise. Thanx, Paul -- 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
