On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > This was done because the interaction between trylock_slowpath and that > -1000 state hurt my head. Yeah, it was a stupid hacky thing to avoid the "list_empty()", but doing it explicitly is fine (we don't hold the lock, so the list isn't necessarily stable, but doing "list_empty()" is fine because we don't ever dereference the pointers, we just compare the pointers themselves). I shouldn't have done that hacky thing, it wasn't worth it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
