Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 2/7] lock_list: a fine grain locked double linked list]

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:20:40AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> klist is quite different in that it locks the whole list. The proposed
> data structure locks each edge, that is it will allow concurrent
> deletion of elements as long as they don't share neighbours.

Yes, that's one of the reasons why I dislike klist even more ;-) 

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