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From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] rcu: don't assume the size of struct rcu_head
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:03:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6CA843.3090103@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)


We always keep the struct rcu_head very small, but we may change it in future
or under some CONFIGs.

There are some other systems may assume the size of struct rcu_head as 2 * sizeof(long).
These assumptions obstruct us to add debug information or priority information
to struct rcu_head. It is time to fix them.

It is glad that I just find 3 places which need to be fixed. These 4 patches
are just cleanup patches when the size of struct rcu_head == 2 * sizeof(long).
NO overhead added and NO behavior changed.
Even when the size of struct rcu_head becomes larger, only slub is changed a little.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-01  8:03 Lai Jiangshan [this message]
2011-03-10  7:21 ` [PATCH 1/3 V2] slub: automatically reserve bytes at the end of slab Lai Jiangshan
2011-03-10 15:35   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-10  7:22 ` [PATCH 2/3 V2] slub,rcu: don't assume the size of struct rcu_head Lai Jiangshan
2011-03-10 15:36   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-03-10  7:22 ` [PATCH 3/3 V2] slab,rcu: " Lai Jiangshan
2011-03-10 15:36   ` Christoph Lameter

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