Re: vfree during RCU

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Given ruleset sizes, using kmalloc proves to be difficult currently, so
> vfree is generally used. I tried hooking that up with RCU, but quickly
> found that vfree in RCU is a bad idea. What comes to mind to solve this
> is to use an extra kthread which can tolerate sleeping. Do you know of
> ideas preferable to a cleaning-up kthread?
>

Please see kvfree().

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Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx)
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