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Date:   Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:49:04 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Bob Pearson <rpearsonhpe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next 2/2] RDMA/rxe: Enable rcu locking of indexed
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:59:44PM -0500, Bob Pearson wrote:
> Make rcu_read locking of critical sections with the indexed
> verbs objects be protected from early freeing of those objects.
> The AH, QP, MR and MW objects are looked up from their indices
> contained in received packets or WQEs during I/O processing.
> Make these objects be freed using kfree_rcu to avoid races.

Sorry, how use of RCU avoid races?

Thanks