Re: [RFC -v9 0/4] Lock-less list

Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-12-23T06:07:59Z

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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:43:19 +0800, Huang Ying said:
> Add a lock-less NULL-terminated linked list implementation. And use
> that in irq_work and replace net/rds/xlist.h.

A quick overview of the code looks mostly sane. What I don't see is
an explanation of *why* this is being added. What benefits does it
have over the current code? Is it faster? Smaller? Simply getting rid
of near-duplicate versions in rds and irq_work? Something else?

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