From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
lenb@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [RFC patch 0/2] API renaming: "llist" (lockless list) to "llstack" (lockless stack)
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:47:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110903174721.390074195@efficios.com> (raw)
Hi,
I am proposing these 2 patches:
1) Rename the llist API into llstack
2) make llstack_push return "prior empty state" information
The API change in (2) assumes that this "lockless list" behaves like a
stack. Having a "list" API that has a stack behavior cast in stone does
not make sense, but nevertheless some stack properties are really
useful. So reflect the behavior of the lockless structure (stack/lifo)
into the API.
These patches apply on Linux v3.1-rc4.
Comments are welcome,
Best regards,
Mathieu
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
next reply other threads:[~2011-09-03 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-03 17:47 Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2011-09-03 17:47 ` [RFC patch 1/2] Rename the "llist" (lockless list) to "llstack" (lockless stack) Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-09-03 22:41 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-04 20:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-09-05 2:00 ` Huang Ying
2011-09-03 17:47 ` [RFC patch 2/2] llstack: make llstack_push return "prior empty state" information Mathieu Desnoyers
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