Re: [PATCH] slub: fix slab_pad_check()

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 18:42:33 EST


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.
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