On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:42:27AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> If we observe next, we will observe val != tail sooner or later. It is not
> possible for it to clear the tail code in the lock. The tail xchg will
> guarantee that.
>
> Another alternative is to do something like
>
> + if (!next)
> while (!(next = READ_ONCE(node->next)))
> cpu_relax();
>
Yes maybe, although the main reason I fell over this was because it was
a separate change (and not mentioned in the Changelog).
Although the above would need braces (per CodingStyle), so:
if (!next) {
while (!(next = READ_ONCE(node->next)))
cpu_relax();
}
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