Re: [TOMOYO #14 (mmotm 2008-12-30-16-05) 02/10] Singly linked list implementation.

[Tetsuo Handa]

James Morris wrote:
> > By ommiting pointer to previous element, the reader becomes read lock free,
> > which is good thing for implementing "write once read many" list.
> 
> This has a technical ack from Paul, but what about Linus' long-standing 
> objection to singly-linked lists in the kernel?  I'm sure this has been 
> discussed re. your patches, but I can't find a reference.
> 
OK, for reviewers' ease, I purged list1 for now.

Next posting (#15) will use standard doubly linked list with rw_semaphore.

Thanks.
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