From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:45:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295484358.15213.25.camel@yhuang-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110119135546.bb7e8f62.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 05:55 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm trying to remember why we're talking about this.
>
> You had an ACPI-based "hardware error reporting" thing. And that
> required an nmi-context memory allocator. And that required a
> "lockless" list implementation.
>
> Yes?
Yes. But the "lockless" list implementation is general, it can be used
by other part of kernel too, such as irq_work and xlist in
net/rds/xlist.h in the patchset.
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-20 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-17 6:16 [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list Huang Ying
2011-01-17 6:16 ` [PATCH -v10 1/4] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG Huang Ying
2011-01-17 6:16 ` [PATCH -v10 2/4] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list Huang Ying
2011-01-17 6:16 ` [PATCH -v10 3/4] irq_work, Use llist in irq_work Huang Ying
2011-01-17 6:16 ` [PATCH -v10 4/4] net, rds, Replace xlist in net/rds/xlist.h with llist Huang Ying
2011-01-19 21:55 ` [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list Andrew Morton
2011-01-20 0:45 ` Huang Ying [this message]
2011-01-20 0:52 ` Andrew Morton
2011-01-20 1:09 ` Huang Ying
2011-01-20 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-20 11:18 ` huang ying
2011-01-20 11:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-20 11:57 ` huang ying
2011-01-20 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20 12:49 ` huang ying
2011-01-20 13:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20 13:24 ` huang ying
2011-01-20 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-01-20 14:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-01-20 17:59 ` Luck, Tony
2011-01-20 22:53 ` Mike Waychison
2011-01-21 17:39 ` Tim Hockin
2011-01-21 18:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-01-20 5:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-01-20 8:57 ` huang ying
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