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authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2011-09-08 08:00:45 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-10-04 12:43:44 +0200
commit781f7fd916fc77a862e20063ed3aeedf173234f9 (patch)
tree86d6e89060c765cbab65b7c3e77884d3e7c17e70 /lib/llist.c
parentllist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg() (diff)
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llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
Extend the llist_add*() functions to return a success indicator, this allows us in the scheduler code to send an IPI if the queue was empty. ( There's no effect on existing users, because the list_add_xxx() functions are inline, thus this will be optimized out by the compiler if not used by callers. ) Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-5-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/llist.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/llist.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/llist.c b/lib/llist.c
index 6c69f1d14c4b..878985c4d19d 100644
--- a/lib/llist.c
+++ b/lib/llist.c
@@ -34,8 +34,10 @@
* @new_first: first entry in batch to be added
* @new_last: last entry in batch to be added
* @head: the head for your lock-less list
+ *
+ * Return whether list is empty before adding.
*/
-void llist_add_batch(struct llist_node *new_first, struct llist_node *new_last,
+bool llist_add_batch(struct llist_node *new_first, struct llist_node *new_last,
struct llist_head *head)
{
struct llist_node *entry, *old_entry;
@@ -49,6 +51,8 @@ void llist_add_batch(struct llist_node *new_first, struct llist_node *new_last,
break;
cpu_relax();
}
+
+ return old_entry == NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(llist_add_batch);