Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm/vmalloc: Cache the /proc/meminfo vmalloc statistics

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Aug 22 2015 - 10:37:35 EST


On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Would something like this be acceptable (and is it correct)?

I don't think any of this can be called "correct", in that the
unlocked accesses to the cached state are clearly racy, but I think
it's very much "acceptable".

Linus
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