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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 14/14] dcache: Implement object migration
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 07:29:14AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > __d_alloc() is not holding ->d_lock, since the object is not visible to
> > anybody else yet; with your changes it *is* visible.
>
> I don't quite understand this comment. How is the object visible? The
> constructor is only called when allocating a new page to the slab and
> this is done with interrupts disabled.

Not to constructor, to your try-to-evict code...

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