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Simpler and faster lock-free linked list (#1565)
Lock-free list implementation is considerably simplified, taking into account a limited number of operations that it needs to support. * prev pointers in the list are not marked for removal, since we don't need to support linearizable backwards iteration. * helpDelete method is completely removed. All "delete-helping" is performed only by correctPrev method. * correctPrev method bails out when the node it works on is removed to reduce contention during concurrent removals. * Special open methods "isRemoved" and "nextIfRemoved" are introduced and are overridden in list head class (which is never removed). This ensures that on long list "removeFist" operation (touching head) does not interfere with "addLast" (touch tail). There is still sharing of cache-lines in this case, but no helping between them. All in all, this improvement reduces the size of implementation code and makes it considerably faster. Operations on LinkedListChannel are now much faster (see timings of ChannelSendReceiveStressTest).
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