On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Actually, it does not protect much anymore. Here's a cleanup+comments > > patch (against current mainline). > > This is getting scary. Manfred, Christoph, Pekka: have you guys taken a > close look at what's going on in here? I looked at his patch and he seems to be right. Most of the kmem_cache structure is established at slab creation. Updates are to the debug counters and to nodelists[] during node online/offline and to array[] during cpu online/offline. The chain mutex is used to protect the setting of the tuning parameters. I still need to have a look at the details though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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