From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ej1-f53.google.com (mail-ej1-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 983BF72 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ej1-f53.google.com with SMTP id nd37so5023818ejc.3 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:56:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CDUWKMhDng5NBWGQ0iuMjqcvNRC2fdcuBx5BZPpTnHs=; b=VdFt53cWOxe/3XDbVYRmakE9EmrsXFMokamCiiY15CYCKtf4OZ0ItHDjSJ6uMtNsXp DK/7kYxbtSy1jHEfG9Toh8PiHWKzGLyOUsT4F0l3vKozRuIu/aXs/WmIRHGhMuMeZBDt 074icNiwRKS26w0nOEKzihcaCTfvkTOY+wjP1e394d3fQogawwHu0tauf0XJG/vEo91R JZ4PHxprUrjnhCsw022zYZ7M+loop5NXjhHHk9Y5U4zj/OC2suhKXjxL7K7SLTYajgGd ysh/Ort/YJdViCCgvyzRN/dxQFnp3r5Ez/7YemD5j3pvMQ6rOsVz8KoEWvWt4uceO5dS 136w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CDUWKMhDng5NBWGQ0iuMjqcvNRC2fdcuBx5BZPpTnHs=; b=hwMP3wv/mjxwePgam2WEdaFORzF5mhBV5f3q9FufXMPljNYtWBeoH+SIuepPwBRq+U +VsX+ZVAGCp7aKXJfRGw1mMcqEhfzBv5sMlB/5FM1RB2qJ10spmgj3cFOlgpVUGvjZX9 2C9SPKObh7vHk7JpXYGMIqeF5rHW0NCuzJLQkxLrg9w5HQh+N7aYjkdlPHcVcyDsi1hz ZONuhUbRfZKLzxK0PUTJldGltvTRQOxVpTuRFXMeJfKL9Gy6GuEcugMxzmQLCzVfQPDT MIAs+Xzkh9O4PkBA58NLgLrmS77+qz2NQtnzeXZ0Ifm2Eax/Ag/qJGTttbgqt4ZMVZ8m dJEQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532G5lF4SfdFJ87AEnkLu67kQ0kwHVh+FK8RlpA5PKgaagOk8fT6 8/7VYKCdi00gw8aPRbPlvsg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzWQcE3F9VJ/gAUCFIYQHzJFiVfBo0ITH+0drszHNqZs2ESSkKAVXLXEDHtKXNB94LbaSEidA== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:6814:: with SMTP id k20mr455348ejr.455.1623862602139; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux.local (host-82-59-55-132.retail.telecomitalia.it. [82.59.55.132]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ci4sm1901102ejc.110.2021.06.16.09.56.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:56:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: David Kershner , sparmaintainer@unisys.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox , Daniel Vetter , Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 RESEND] staging: unisys: visorhba: Convert module from IDR to XArray Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:56:39 +0200 Message-ID: <3316425.tqDOt8T8LQ@linux.local> In-Reply-To: References: <20210514081112.19542-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 1:50:15 PM CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:11:11AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > Converted visorhba from IDR to XArray. The abstract data type XArray is > > more memory-efficient, parallelizable, and cache friendly. It takes > > advantage of RCU to perform lookups without locking. Furthermore, IDR is > > deprecated because XArray has a better (cleaner and more consistent) > > API. > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco > > Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter > > --- > > Given a lack of response from the unisys maintainer, I'll go apply this > now and see what breaks :) > Hi Greg, I'm really grateful to you for having applied that patch notwithstanding the lack of response from Unisys. Understanding IDR, XArray, and the flow of the code, has been a hard task for a newcomer having only a month of experience to kernel development. Thanks very much, Fabio > > thanks, > > greg k-h