From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751236AbeDDH3S (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2018 03:29:18 -0400 Received: from userp2130.oracle.com ([156.151.31.86]:50474 "EHLO userp2130.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750842AbeDDH3R (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2018 03:29:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kfree_rcu() should use kfree_bulk() interface To: Christopher Lameter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, joe@perches.com, willy@infradead.org, brouer@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <1522647064-27167-1-git-send-email-rao.shoaib@oracle.com> <1522647064-27167-3-git-send-email-rao.shoaib@oracle.com> From: Rao Shoaib Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 00:28:53 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=8852 signatures=668697 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=2 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=808 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1711220000 definitions=main-1804040075 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/02/2018 10:20 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, rao.shoaib@oracle.com wrote: > >> kfree_rcu() should use the new kfree_bulk() interface for freeing >> rcu structures as it is more efficient. > It would be even better if this approach could also use > > kmem_cache_free_bulk() > > or > > kfree_bulk() Sorry I do not understand your comment. The patch is using kfree_bulk() which is an inline function. Shoaib