Re: [PATCH -mm -v8 0/3] Lockless memory allocator and list

Huang Ying
2010-12-17T00:20:36Z

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:24 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 14:59 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > This patchset adds a lockless memory allocator and a lock-less
> > list.
>
> Still no users the allocator, and no attempt to unify the existing
> lockless list implementations.
>
> I'm getting very tired of this Huang.

I just want to do that in the next step after merging the data structure
itself. The first user of the allocator is APEI, which will go ACPI
tree, lockless list in irq_work will go tip tree, lockless list in xlist
will go net tree.

We must merge the data structure with its users together?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying