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From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Elder <elder@ieee.org>,
	Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [greybus-dev] [PATCH v2] staging: greybus: Convert uart.c from IDR to XArray
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:57:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8278430.GnBS7eVdlf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <335f30c7-8ab4-d46a-d415-e994997a3fa5@linaro.org>

On Wednesday, August 25, 2021 3:45:13 PM CEST Alex Elder wrote:
> On 8/25/21 12:20 AM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > On Monday, August 16, 2021 4:46:08 PM CEST Alex Elder wrote:
> >> On 8/14/21 1:11 PM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> >>> Convert greybus/uart.c from IDR to XArray. The abstract data type XArray
> >>> is more memory-efficient, parallelisable, 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.
> >>
> >> I haven't verified the use of the new API (yet) but I have a few
> >> comments on your patch, below.
> >>
> >> 					-Alex
> > 
> > Dear Alex,
> > 
> > On August 16th I submitted the v3 of my patch ("staging: greybus: Convert uart.c 
> > from IDR to XArray"), with changes based on the comments you provided.
> 
> Yes, I intend to review version 3.  I'm sorry I didn't respond to
> your earlier message; I am on vacation this week.
> 
> 					-Alex

Oh, there's no hurry, sorry to bother you while on vacation.
Even kernel hackers deserve a vacation at least once a year or two... :-)

Thanks,

Fabio

> > 
> > Could you please take a few minutes to review this too? I would really appreciate it.
> > 
> > The v3 patch is at https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210816195000.736-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com/
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Fabio
> > 
> > P.S.: I'd also like to know if you think it's worth converting IDA to XArray in order 
> > to improve the Greybus driver in staging.
> > 
> >   
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > greybus-dev mailing list
> > greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org
> > https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/greybus-dev
> > 
> 
> 





      reply	other threads:[~2021-08-26 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-14 18:11 [PATCH v2] staging: greybus: Convert uart.c from IDR to XArray Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-16 14:46 ` Alex Elder
2021-08-16 15:01   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-16 15:06     ` Dan Carpenter
2021-08-16 15:10       ` [greybus-dev] " Alex Elder
2021-08-16 18:36         ` Dan Carpenter
2021-08-16 18:38           ` Dan Carpenter
2021-08-16 19:17           ` Alex Elder
2021-08-17  4:58             ` Dan Carpenter
2021-08-16 16:55   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-17 10:17   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-25  5:20   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-25 13:45     ` [greybus-dev] " Alex Elder
2021-08-26 15:57       ` Fabio M. De Francesco [this message]

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