Re: [PATCH 01/11] mm,migration: Take a reference to the anon_vmabefore migrating

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Mar 17 2010 - 12:40:45 EST


On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> This is true, but I don't think such a change belongs in this patch
> series. If this series gets merged, then it would be sensible to investigate
> if refcounting anon_vma is a good idea or would it be a bouncing write-shared
> cacheline mess.

SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is there to avoid the cooling of hot cachelines by
RCU.

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