Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] llist: Add a lock-less list variant terminated by a sentinel node

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 01:32:49PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> What my current thinking is to make llist works with both NULL and sentinel
> terminated lockless list. Users who wish to use the sentinel terminated
> version will have to use special sentinel version of LLIST_HEAD() macro and
> llist_del_all() and __llist_del_all() functions. In this way, I don't need
> to touch an existing users of llist while minimizing code redundancy. What
> do you think?

Wouldn't that be more error-prone in the long term? I'd just bite the bullet
and convert the empty tests. It is a hassle to find them but given that it's
just the head node testing, it hopefully wouldn't be too bad.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun