Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 8 authors, 2024-11-17

Re: [PATCH 00/17] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: 2024-10-14 11:26:09
Also in: batman, bridge, kernel-janitors, kvm, linux-block, linux-can, linux-nfs, lkml, netdev, netfilter-devel

On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:16:47PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
Since SLOB was removed and since
commit 6c6c47b063b5 ("mm, slab: call kvfree_rcu_barrier() from kmem_cache_destroy()"),
it is not necessary to use call_rcu when the callback only performs
kmem_cache_free. Use kfree_rcu() directly.
Applied and squashed into single patch for netfilter these patches:

[17/17] netfilter: xt_hashlimit: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
[16/17] netfilter: expect: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
[15/17] netfilter: nf_conncount: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback

this update is now flying to net-next.

Thanks
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