Re: About lock-less data structure patches

[Huang Ying]

On 04/06/2011 09:48 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * huang ying (huang.ying.caritas@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
[snip]
>>>>
>>>> OK.  I will change the comments, adding these semantics explanation.
>>>> The user should be warned :)
>>>
>>> Yes, that makes sense. After this generalization step, if you're ok with
>>> this, we could aim at moving the implementation from a stack to a queue
>>> and provide fifo semantic rather than lifo, so that other users (e.g.
>>> call_rcu in the kernel) can start benefiting from it.
>>
>> I think that is good to move from stack to queue.
>>
>> I will send out changed lock-less data structure patchset soon.  And
>> we can continue to work on the new lock-less queue at the same time.
> 
> Sounds like a very good plan! Thanks!

Maybe you can send out your lock-less queue patches, so we can work on that.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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