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

[Chuck Lever III]

> On Sep 11, 2023, at 2:13 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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?

I'll let the patch author respond to that question, but let me pose
one of my own: What pre-existing facilities are you thinking of, so
that I may have a look?


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Chuck Lever