Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/7] net,rcu: convertcall_rcu(sk_filter_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue May 03 2011 - 15:34:11 EST


On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:16:04AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:41:56PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 09:13:38 -0700
> > > >
> > > > > The RCU callback sk_filter_release_rcu just calls kfree(), so we use
> > > > > kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu().
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > I'm fine with all of these net conversions:
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Thank you, Dave!
> >
> > Looking at the networking-only diffstat i suspect the best flow would be if
> > Dave pulled these from you into the networking tree?
>
> Oh, but kfree_rcu() is not upstream yet, right? So it has to be in the RCU
> tree.

Yep! So I either need to get kfree_rcu() upstream, then push up Dave's
tree, or I need to push them all up -tip. Either way is fine by me.

Thanx, Paul
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