From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752590Ab3J2T11 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:27:27 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:43898 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751265Ab3J2T1Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:27:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:27:20 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] kernel: use lockless list for smp_call_function_single Message-ID: <20131029192720.GA24089@infradead.org> References: <20131024151921.537751910@bombadil.infradead.org> <20131024152314.204817634@bombadil.infradead.org> <20131029192536.GB9568@quack.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131029192536.GB9568@quack.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:25:36PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > I'm wondering: Who's still using the normal list_head? I was grepping for > a while and I couldn't find any user. Otherwise the patch looks good to me. The block/blk-softirq.c code is abusing it in a fairly ugly way.