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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list
From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:45:58 +0800
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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