Re: [PATCH v2 30/47] virtio_balloon: dynamically allocate the virtio-balloon shrinker
From: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Date: 2023-07-26 07:42:04
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On Jul 24, 2023, at 17:43, Qi Zheng [off-list ref] wrote: In preparation for implementing lockless slab shrink, use new APIs to dynamically allocate the virtio-balloon shrinker, so that it can be freed asynchronously using kfree_rcu(). Then it doesn't need to wait for RCU read-side critical section when releasing the struct virtio_balloon. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <redacted>