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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst index 1fb086066377..21e40fcc08de 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.rst @@ -140,8 +140,7 @@ very very fast (before the end of RCU grace period) Avoiding extra smp_rmb() ======================== -With hlist_nulls we can avoid extra smp_rmb() in lockless_lookup() -and extra _release() in insert function. +With hlist_nulls we can avoid extra smp_rmb() in lockless_lookup(). For example, if we choose to store the slot number as the 'nulls' end-of-list marker for each slot of the hash table, we can detect @@ -196,6 +195,9 @@ Note that using hlist_nulls means the type of 'obj_node' field of 2) Insert algorithm ------------------- +Same to the above one, but uses hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu() instead of +hlist_add_head_rcu(). + :: /* |