> related to this comment, does Linux have a lockless (using atomics) > singly linked list element? That would be very useful in a driver hot > path.
No; it doesn't. At least not a portable one. Besides they tend to be not faster anyways because e.g. cmpxchg tends to be as slow as an explicit spinlock. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html