> > This may also possibly help to save cycles due to high usage and
> > contention when using a generic kmem_cache (when they stay separate
> > from others, thanks for the precision!).
> 
> Have you measured this?
> 
> This isn't applicable for 4.7-rc at this time, _unless_ it fixes a bug,
> which is why I pushed back on this.  If you want your own cache for
> these variables, fine, I don't care, but that makes it a 4.8-rc1 patch
> instead.
> 
> hope that helps explain things better,

As a side question when is the window to push patches of this class?
Is it when 4.7-rc7 is merged to staging? 
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