From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wfcqueue: add function for unsynchronized prepend
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 21:15:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130402211527.GA17261@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130402130541.GC11621@Krystal>
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> * Eric Wong (normalperson@yhbt.net) wrote:
> > In some situations, it is necessary to prepend a node to a queue.
> > For epoll, this is necessary for two rare conditions:
> >
> > * when the user triggers -EFAULT
> > * when reinjecting elements from the ovflist (implemented as a stack)
>
> This approach makes sense.
>
> In terms of API naming, I wonder if "prepend" is the good counterpart
> for "enqueue". Maybe "enqueue_first" or "enqueue_head" could be better
> suited ?
I'm not sure, I'll go with whatever name you decide is best :)
Thanks for looking at my patch, I'll post an updated version
once a name is decided.
--
Eric "isuckatnamingthings" Wong
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-02 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-11 21:36 [RFC PATCH] Linux kernel Wait-Free Concurrent Queue Implementation Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-14 4:22 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-14 13:18 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-14 19:07 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-14 19:48 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-14 21:32 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-15 2:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-16 22:02 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-17 2:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-18 10:37 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-15 0:49 ` Peter Hurley
2013-03-15 2:08 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-21 11:43 ` [PATCH] wfcqueue: functions for local append and enqueue Eric Wong
2013-03-22 2:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-22 10:31 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-23 19:07 ` [PATCH v2] " Eric Wong
2013-03-23 19:43 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-23 20:42 ` [PATCH v3] " Eric Wong
2013-03-23 22:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-03-29 8:10 ` [PATCH] wfcqueue: add function for unsynchronized prepend Eric Wong
2013-04-02 13:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-04-02 21:15 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2013-04-06 21:42 ` [RFC PATCH] wfcqueue: implement __wfcq_enqueue_head() Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-04-11 21:23 ` [RFC PATCH] Linux kernel Wait-Free Concurrent Queue Implementation Eric Wong
2013-04-11 22:44 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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