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SubjectRe: [patch 03/10] lib: radix-tree: radix_tree_delete_item()
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:53:35PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Provide a function that does not just delete an entry at a given
> index, but also allows passing in an expected item. Delete only if
> that item is still located at the specified index.
>
> This is handy when lockless tree traversals want to delete entries as
> well because they don't have to do an second, locked lookup to verify
> the slot has not changed under them before deleting the entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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