Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list | From | Huang Ying <> | Date | Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:45:58 +0800 |
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On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 05:55 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'm trying to remember why we're talking about this. > > You had an ACPI-based "hardware error reporting" thing. And that > required an nmi-context memory allocator. And that required a > "lockless" list implementation. > > Yes?
Yes. But the "lockless" list implementation is general, it can be used by other part of kernel too, such as irq_work and xlist in net/rds/xlist.h in the patchset.
Best Regards, Huang Ying
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