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Subject[RFC patch 0/2] API renaming: "llist" (lockless list) to "llstack" (lockless stack)
Hi,

I am proposing these 2 patches:

1) Rename the llist API into llstack
2) make llstack_push return "prior empty state" information

The API change in (2) assumes that this "lockless list" behaves like a
stack. Having a "list" API that has a stack behavior cast in stone does
not make sense, but nevertheless some stack properties are really
useful. So reflect the behavior of the lockless structure (stack/lifo)
into the API.

These patches apply on Linux v3.1-rc4.

Comments are welcome,

Best regards,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com


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