> related to this comment, does Linux have a lockless (using atomics)
> singly linked list element?  That would be very useful in a driver hot
> path.

No; it doesn't. At least not a portable one.
Besides they tend to be not faster anyways because e.g. cmpxchg tends
to be as slow as an explicit spinlock.

-Andi

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