From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
josh@joshtriplett.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
jiangshanlai@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, penberg@kernel.org,
rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, brouer@redhat.com, rao.shoaib@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu()
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:54:22 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1802071152580.22710@nuc-kabylake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180207122910.1a91a48e@gandalf.local.home>
On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> But a generic "malloc" or "free" that does things differently depending
> on the size is a different story.
They would not be used for cases with special requirements but for the
throwaway allows where noone cares about these details. Its just a
convenience for the developers that do not need to be bothered with too
much detail because they are not dealing with codepaths that have special
requirements.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-07 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-06 10:19 Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-06 10:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-06 14:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-06 15:06 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-06 15:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-06 10:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: Use kvfree_rcu() in update_memcg_params() Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-07 2:17 ` [PATCH 0/2] rcu: Transform kfree_rcu() into kvfree_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 4:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 5:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 7:54 ` Josh Triplett
2018-02-07 8:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 7:57 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-02-07 8:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 13:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-07 16:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-07 16:45 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-02-07 18:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 18:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-08 4:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-22 23:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-08 4:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-07 16:47 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-07 17:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-07 17:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-07 17:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-07 17:54 ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2018-02-07 14:55 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-08 4:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
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