From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:16:38 +0100

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> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 17:02 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> > > Peter Zijlstra a écrit :
> > >> So by not using some memory barriers (would be nice to have it
> > >> illustrated which ones), we can race and end up on the wrong chain, in
> > >> case that happens we detect this by using this per-chain terminator and
> > >> try again.
> > >>
> > >> It would be really good to have it explained in the rculist_nulls.h
> > >> comments what memory barriers are missing, what races they open, and how
> > >> the this special terminator trick closes that race.
> > > 
> > > OK, maybe I should add a Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt file with
> > > appropriate examples and documentation.
> > > 
> > > (Say the lookup/insert algorithms, with standard hlist and memory barriers,
> > > and with hlist_nulls without those two memory barriers.
> > > 
> > 
> > [PATCH 4/3] rcu: documents rculist_nulls
> > 
> > Adds Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt file to describe how 'nulls'
> > end-of-list can help in some RCU algos.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Since there seems to be consensus for these changes I'm going to merge this
stuff into net-next-2.6 so that I can add in the users that Eric has written.

Thanks everyone for the review and feedback.
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