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From: "David B. Stevens" <dsteven3@maine.rr.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:49:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D9364C5.9060208@maine.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209261628490.1837-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva

Rik,

I respectfully disagree, it is well known that systems are far more 
stable when running on empty lists, routines like this get us there faster.

Cheers,
   Dave

PS:Is it April in September?



Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> 
> 
>>We don't know the parent structure. We shouldn't know it, since it takes
>>time. So I try to keep the address pointer stable instead of just
>>exchanging pointers.
> 
> 
> In the case of slist_del() you HAVE to know it.
> 
> Think about removing a single entry from the middle of
> the list ... the entries before and after need to stay
> on the list.
> 
> Rik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-26 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20020926142547.N13817@bitchcake.off.net>
2002-09-26 18:45 ` [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2 Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 19:29   ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 19:43     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 20:00       ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 20:10         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 21:13         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 21:19           ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-27  0:57       ` Zach Brown
2002-09-27 20:08         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-27 20:39           ` Zach Brown
2002-09-27 20:52             ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-28  9:45         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-30 19:37         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-30 20:04           ` Zach Brown
     [not found]             ` <E17w7N8-0005px-00@starship>
2002-09-30 20:50               ` Zach Brown
2002-10-01 16:05             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-26 19:49     ` David B. Stevens [this message]
     [not found] <924963807@toto.iv>
2002-09-27  3:56 ` Peter Chubb
2002-09-27  7:27   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-27 14:56   ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-30 19:48   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-26 17:41 Lightweight Patch Manager
2002-09-26 17:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 18:26   ` Thunder from the hill

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