Peter Zijlstra e563604a5f freelist: Implement lockless freelist ...

A simple CAS-based lock-free free list. Not the fastest thing in the world
under heavy contention, but simple and correct (assuming nodes are never
freed until after the free list is destroyed), and fairly speedy under low
contention.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159870622579.1229682.16729440870040944993.stgit@devnote2

2020-10-12 18:27:28 +02:00

3.8 KiB

Raw Permalink Blame History

View Raw