Re: [PATCH] Add initial implementation of klist helpers.

Rik van Riel
2005-06-21T11:43:50Z

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote:

> Internally, that routine takes the klist's lock, decrements the reference
> count of the previous klist_node and increments the count of the next
> klist_node. It then drops the lock and returns.

Sacrificing performance for scalability has never been
the right thing in the past. Why would it be right now?

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