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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:46:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] generic-pidhash-2.5.36-J2, BK-curr
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

>  > >  - add list_for_each_noprefetch() to list.h, for all those list users who 
>  > >    know that in the majority of cases the list is going to be short.
>  > That name is really ugly, as the lack ofthe prefetch is an implementation
>  > detail.  What about list_for_each_short or __list_for_each?
> 
> Wasn't this the reason we have list_for_each_safe() ?

no, list_for_each_safe() is a loop that is entry-removal safe.

	Ingo

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