This project proposal is a subtask of smp networking.

The goal of this project is to implement lockless and atomic FIFO/LIFO queues in the kernel. The routines to be implemented allow for commonly typed items to be locklessly inserted at either the head or tail of a queue for either last-in, first-out (LIFO) or first-in, first-out (FIFO) behavior, respectively. However, a queue is not instrinsicly LIFO or FIFO. Its behavior is determined solely by which method each item was pushed onto the queue.

It is only possible for an item to removed from the head of queue. This removal is also performed in a lockless manner.

All items in the queue must share a atomic_queue_link_t member at the same offset from the beginning of item. This offset is passed to atomic_qinit.

The proposed interface looks like this: