Re: Improve list manipulation in several places

On 23.04.23 08:42, Richard Guo wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I've split the patch into two as attached.
> 0001 is just a minor simplification by replacing lfirst(list_head(list))
> with linitial(list).  0002 introduces new functions to reduce the
> movement of list elements in several places so as to gain performance
> improvement and benefit future callers.

These look sensible to me.  If you could show some numbers that support 
the claim that there is a performance advantage, it would be even more 
convincing.