Re: [PATCH 8/9] slab: destroy a slab without holding any alien cache lock

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Feb 14 2014 - 13:48:39 EST


On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> I haven't heard that this alien cache lock is contended, but to reduce
> chance of contention would be better generally. And with this change,
> we can simplify complex lockdep annotation in slab code.
> In the following patch, it will be implemented.

Ok. Same move as before with the regular freeing.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
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