Il 26/08/2013 23:48, Mike Day ha scritto: > > > Mathieu - Thanks for the review! And thanks for the code, I'm working > with it right now. I like the idea of using a flag to provide a form of > atomicity for the doubly-linked list elements. I'm also planning on > running some timing tests to see of the additional memory barriers and > atomic accesses make *any* difference whatsoever.
We probably have already too many queue/list variations (a relic of the BSD queue.h headers). Linux does not need RCU-friendly reverse iteration at all, do we really need it? In other words, I think your v2 was really close to mergeable state... Paolo