From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753395Ab3J2VZN (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:25:13 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:59914 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752829Ab3J2VZL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:25:11 -0400 Message-ID: <527027B1.8070808@kernel.dk> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:25:05 -0600 From: Jens Axboe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] kernel: use lockless list for smp_call_function_single References: <20131024151921.537751910@bombadil.infradead.org> <20131024152314.204817634@bombadil.infradead.org> <20131029192536.GB9568@quack.suse.cz> <20131029192720.GA24089@infradead.org> <20131029211715.GA12814@quack.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20131029211715.GA12814@quack.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/29/2013 03:17 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 29-10-13 12:27:20, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> 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. > Ah, thanks for the pointer. Looking into the code, that could easily use > llist as well, couldn't it? Sure, it'd be easy enough to do. -- Jens Axboe