From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755871AbcEaSNL (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2016 14:13:11 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:59285 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755398AbcEaSNI (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2016 14:13:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 12:13:06 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: admin Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: lock-free data structure library ported to Linux kernel Message-ID: <20160531121306.25a3ce3a@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <574D5441.6060709@liblfds.org> References: <574D5441.6060709@liblfds.org> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 31 May 2016 12:07:13 +0300 admin wrote: > I am the author of a lock-free data structure library, liblfds, which > has now my first attempt at a port to the Linux kernel, which is to say, > I have a Kbuild file which produces a static library. > > I'm posting as I thought it might be of some interest. Please forgive > me if not! So if you want to get people to take a look at this, I would suggest posting it as a patch set, and, crucially, adding uses within the kernel and showing how that makes the kernel better. Thanks, jon