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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:50:15 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>, sparmaintainer@unisys.com,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 RESEND] staging: unisys: visorhba: Convert module from
 IDR to XArray
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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 <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---

Given a lack of response from the unisys maintainer, I'll go apply this
now and see what breaks :)

thanks,

greg k-h