On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > 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. I'd rather have the call_rcu in the slabs replaced by a function that can be set by the user. Then we can remove all rcu barriers from the code and the slabs could be used with any type of rcu functionality. -- 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
