On Sun, 22 Jan 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 06:00:24PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > Actually, slab is using RCU to provide type safety to those slab users > > > who request it. > > > > Typesafety is a side effect. The main idea here is that the object can > > still be accessed in RCU sections after another processor frees the > > object. We guarantee that the object is not freed but it may be reused > > for another object within the RCU period. > > > > Can we have a name that expresses all of that properly? > > But of course!!! "Type safety". http://wiki.c2.com/?TypeSafe
Well that does not convey the idea that RCU is involved here. SLAB_DESTROY_RCU_TYPESAFE ?
