Re: [PATCH 07/16] slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU forRCU free

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 02:39:22PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >
> > > With build-time size checking, we can overload the RCU head over the LRU
> > > of struct page to free pages of a slab in rcu context. This really help to
> > > implement to overload the struct slab over the struct page and this
> > > eventually reduce memory usage and cache footprint of the SLAB.
> >
> > Looks fine to me. Can you add the rcu_head to the struct page union? This
> > kind of overload is used frequently elsewhere as well. Then cleanup other
> > cases of such uses (such as in SLUB).
>
> Okay. But I will implement it seprately because I don't know where the cases
> are now and some inverstigation would be needed.

Do it just for this case. The others can be done later.

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