Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/6] Preview of RCU patches for 2.6.40

Dave Chinner
2011-05-01T23:49:17Z

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:21:42AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This patchset introduces RCU_TREE priority boosting, a new "fire and
> forget" kfree_rcu() API, numerous uses of kfree_rcu(), plus a number
> of other fixes and improvements. The patches are as follows:

.....

> 34-70. Use kfree_rcu() throughout the kernel. This set of patches has
> Acked-by's, so will go up -tip.
>
> 71-86. Ditto, but lacking Acked-by's.

Any reason why dentry and inode freeing was not converted in this
series?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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