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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] perf, trace: Use per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to
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On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 12:13 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > What exactly is the puzzlement about?

> The fact we use the hlist API not for hlist purpose but for a list.

I might miss the confusion, but hlist _are_ lists. Its just that their
structure is slightly different that the regular struct list_head stuff.