From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-reply-to: (message from Christoph Lameter on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:54:30 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: SLUB defrag pull request? References: <1223883004.31587.15.camel@penberg-laptop> <1223883164.31587.16.camel@penberg-laptop> <200810132354.30789.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <48F378C6.7030206@linux-foundation.org> <48FC9CCC.3040006@linux-foundation.org> <48FCCC72.5020202@linux-foundation.org> <48FCD7CB.4060505@linux-foundation.org> <48FCE1C4.20807@linux-foundation.org> <48FE6306.6020806@linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:11:56 +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hugh@veritas.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Why? The kmem_cache_free() doesn't touch the contents of the object, > > does it? > > Because filesystem code may be running on other processors which may be > freeing the dentry. You are not actually listening to what I'm saying. Please read the question carefully again. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org