Re: [RFC -v9 0/4] Lock-less list
From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Dec 23 2010 - 01:08:04 EST
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:43:19 +0800, Huang Ying said:
> Add a lock-less NULL-terminated linked list implementation. And use
> that in irq_work and replace net/rds/xlist.h.
A quick overview of the code looks mostly sane. What I don't see is
an explanation of *why* this is being added. What benefits does it
have over the current code? Is it faster? Smaller? Simply getting rid
of near-duplicate versions in rds and irq_work? Something else?
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