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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:55:38 -0800
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] slub: enforce cpuset restrictions for cpu slabs
From: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, we can't add a slab hardwall flag to the cpuset to
> configure this behavior since that would require locking to dereference
> in the fastpath.
>

I don't think that it would - cgroups and subsystems should be RCU safe.

Paul