These operations are trivial to implement and do not have ABA problems.
They are enough to implement simple multiple-producer, single consumer
lock-free lists or, as in the next patch, the multiple consumers can
steal a whole batch of elements and process them at their leisure.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1417518350-6167-5-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
There is no need to do another O(n) pass on the list; the iocb to
split the list at is already available through the array we passed to
io_submit.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1418305950-30924-6-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>