From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: Lightweight Patch Manager <patch@luckynet.dynu.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 20:25:45 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209252024450.14916-100000@montezuma.mastecende.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15762.20827.271317.595537@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Peter Chubb wrote:
> This only works if head->next == entry otherwise you lose half your
> list. Also, none of this is SMP-safe.
>
> I think you need something like this (but with locking!)
Should you really be having locking in a primitive like that? That
shouldn't be taken care of at that level.
Zwane
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function.linuxpower.ca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-26 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-09-26 0:14 ` [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux Peter Chubb
2002-09-26 0:25 ` Zwane Mwaikambo [this message]
2002-09-26 0:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 6:42 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-25 20:56 Lightweight Patch Manager
2002-09-25 21:11 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-25 21:23 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-25 21:17 ` Mark Mielke
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