Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] lib/percpu-list: Per-cpu list with associated per-cpu locks

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Waiman Long wrote:

> I know we can use RCU for singly linked list, but I don't think we can use
> that for doubly linked list as there is no easy way to make atomic changes to
> both prev and next pointers simultaneously unless you are taking about 16b
> cmpxchg which is only supported in some architecture.

But its supported in the most important architecutes. You can fall back to
spinlocks on the ones that do not support it.

--
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



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Ext4 Filesystem]     [Union Filesystem]     [Filesystem Testing]     [Ceph Users]     [Ecryptfs]     [AutoFS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux Cachefs]     [Reiser Filesystem]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [CEPH Development]
  Powered by Linux