Re: [PATCH v1 11/17] lib: add light-weight queuing mechanism.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Sep 11 2023 - 18:43:25 EST


On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:39:43 -0400 Chuck Lever <cel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> lwq is a FIFO single-linked queue that only requires a spinlock
> for dequeueing, which happens in process context. Enqueueing is atomic
> with no spinlock and can happen in any context.

What is the advantage of this over using one of the library
facilities which we already have?