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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 6/7] freelist: Lock less freelist
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:49:20PM -0400, Cameron wrote:
> For what it's worth, the freelist.h code seems to be a faithful adaptation
> of my original blog post code. Didn't think it would end up in the Linux
> kernel one day :-)

Hehe, I ran into the traditional ABA problem for the lockless stack and
asked google, your blog came up.

I'll try and actually think about it a little when the current (virtual)
conference is over.

Are you Ok with the License I put on it, GPLv2 or BDS-2 ?

> I'm just wondering if the assumption that "nodes are never freed until
> after the free list is destroyed" will hold true in the intended use case?

It does, the nodes are only deleted once the whole freelist object is
discarded.

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