RE: [PATCH rc5-rt2 2/3] plist: add new implementation

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 11:42:32 EST


On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 14:31 -0800, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> >From: Oleg Nesterov
> >
> >New implementation. It is smaller, and in my opinion cleaner.
> >User-space test: http://www.tv-sign.ru/oleg/plist.tgz
> >
> >Like hlist, it has different types for head and node: pl_head/pl_node.
> >
> >pl_head does not have ->prio field. This saves sizeof(int), and we
> >don't need to have it in plist_del's parameter list. This is also good
> >for typechecking.
> >
> >Like list_add(), plist_add() does not require initialization on
> pl_node,
> >except ->prio.
>
> /me suggests adding documentation to the header file succintly
> explaining how it is implemented and a quick usage guide (along
> with (C) info).

I second that.

Daniel

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