Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] slub: keep full slabs on list for per memcg caches

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 16 May 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote:

> But w/o ref-counting how can we make sure that all kfrees to the cache
> we are going to re-parent have been completed so that it can be safely
> destroyed? An example:

Keep the old structure around until the counter of slabs (partial, full)
of that old structure is zero? Move individual slab pages until you reach
zero.

One can lock out frees by setting c->page = NULL, zapping the partial list
and taking the per node list lock.

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