From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f72.google.com (mail-it0-f72.google.com [209.85.214.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF8F6B0260 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:02:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-it0-f72.google.com with SMTP id r6so2981765itr.1 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:02:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from aserp2130.oracle.com (aserp2130.oracle.com. [141.146.126.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n82si2829307ioe.108.2017.12.19.12.02.08 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:02:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] kfree_rcu() should use the new kfree_bulk() interface for freeing rcu structures References: <1513705948-31072-1-git-send-email-rao.shoaib@oracle.com> From: Rao Shoaib Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:02:03 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christopher Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, brouer@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org On 12/19/2017 11:33 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, rao.shoaib@oracle.com wrote: > >> This patch updates kfree_rcu to use new bulk memory free functions as they >> are more efficient. It also moves kfree_call_rcu() out of rcu related code to >> mm/slab_common.c > It would be great to have separate patches so that we can review it > properly: > > 1. Move the code into slab_common.c > 2. The actual code changes to the kfree rcu mechanism > 3. The whitespace changes > > -- > 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 I can certainly break down the patch and submit smaller patches as you have suggested. BTW -- This is my first ever patch to Linux, so I am still learning the etiquette. Shoaib -- 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