linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list

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Message-ID: <1295484358.15213.25.camel@yhuang-dev>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:45:58 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v10 0/4] Lock-less list

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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