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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] kfifo: new API v0.6
    On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 03:33:14PM +0200, Stefani Seibold wrote:
    > This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.
    >
    > The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to many
    > constrains. Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it. FIFO's are
    > like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles the most use
    > case would save a lot of development time and memory resources.
    >
    > I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:
    >
    > - The API is to simple, important functions are missing
    > - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
    > - There is a need of a spinlock despite you need it or not
    > - There is no support for data records inside a fifo

    I have some plans to use this kfifo code in upcoming code (mostly
    as a very simple lower overhead NMI safe per CPU fifo). I would appreciate
    if it could be merged ASAP

    I didn't review this iteration, but earlier ones.

    Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

    -Andi


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