[c#] Using Linq to get the last N elements of a collection?

Here's my solution:

public static class EnumerationExtensions
{
    public static IEnumerable<T> TakeLast<T>(this IEnumerable<T> input, int count)
    {
        if (count <= 0)
            yield break;

        var inputList = input as IList<T>;

        if (inputList != null)
        {
            int last = inputList.Count;
            int first = last - count;

            if (first < 0)
                first = 0;

            for (int i = first; i < last; i++)
                yield return inputList[i];
        }
        else
        {
            // Use a ring buffer. We have to enumerate the input, and we don't know in advance how many elements it will contain.
            T[] buffer = new T[count];

            int index = 0;

            count = 0;

            foreach (T item in input)
            {
                buffer[index] = item;

                index = (index + 1) % buffer.Length;
                count++;
            }

            // The index variable now points at the next buffer entry that would be filled. If the buffer isn't completely
            // full, then there are 'count' elements preceding index. If the buffer *is* full, then index is pointing at
            // the oldest entry, which is the first one to return.
            //
            // If the buffer isn't full, which means that the enumeration has fewer than 'count' elements, we'll fix up
            // 'index' to point at the first entry to return. That's easy to do; if the buffer isn't full, then the oldest
            // entry is the first one. :-)
            //
            // We'll also set 'count' to the number of elements to be returned. It only needs adjustment if we've wrapped
            // past the end of the buffer and have enumerated more than the original count value.

            if (count < buffer.Length)
                index = 0;
            else
                count = buffer.Length;

            // Return the values in the correct order.
            while (count > 0)
            {
                yield return buffer[index];

                index = (index + 1) % buffer.Length;
                count--;
            }
        }
    }

    public static IEnumerable<T> SkipLast<T>(this IEnumerable<T> input, int count)
    {
        if (count <= 0)
            return input;
        else
            return input.SkipLastIter(count);
    }

    private static IEnumerable<T> SkipLastIter<T>(this IEnumerable<T> input, int count)
    {
        var inputList = input as IList<T>;

        if (inputList != null)
        {
            int first = 0;
            int last = inputList.Count - count;

            if (last < 0)
                last = 0;

            for (int i = first; i < last; i++)
                yield return inputList[i];
        }
        else
        {
            // Aim to leave 'count' items in the queue. If the input has fewer than 'count'
            // items, then the queue won't ever fill and we return nothing.

            Queue<T> elements = new Queue<T>();

            foreach (T item in input)
            {
                elements.Enqueue(item);

                if (elements.Count > count)
                    yield return elements.Dequeue();
            }
        }
    }
}

The code is a bit chunky, but as a drop-in reusable component, it should perform as well as it can in most scenarios, and it'll keep the code that's using it nice and concise. :-)

My TakeLast for non-IList`1 is based on the same ring buffer algorithm as that in the answers by @Mark Byers and @MackieChan further up. It's interesting how similar they are -- I wrote mine completely independently. Guess there's really just one way to do a ring buffer properly. :-)

Looking at @kbrimington's answer, an additional check could be added to this for IQuerable<T> to fall back to the approach that works well with Entity Framework -- assuming that what I have at this point does not.