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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
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On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:09:57PM +0200, Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher wrote:
> since we've already list.h, what about adding slist.h for
> single linked lists?
> single linked list are often used within the kernel,
> specifically slist_for_each() could be useful, since we can use
> prefetch() there.  (slist_for_each could be used 42 times alone net/core)
> any comments, (like, single linked lists are so trivial, there is no
> need for a header file. or, the programmer has to take care of using
> prefetch() when traversing single linked lists ...) are welcome.
> thanks,
> 	tm

This would be a valuable contribution.


Thanks,
Bill