Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:06:18 -0400 | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] idr: implement idr_alloc() and convert existing users |
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:11:28AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:10:31AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Yeah, that should be easily convertable to the new interface. How > > should we route these changes? Your patch can go through the usual > > nfs channel and the conversion and deprecation patches can be held off > > until after -rc1. Does that sound okay? > > Ooh, BTW, the cyclic allocation is broken. It's prone to -ENOSPC > after the first wraparound. There are several cyclic users in the > kernel and I think it probably would be best to implement cyclic > support in idr.
Are you looking at this, by the way, or do you have any suggestions?
Wondering if it's something I should try to fix or if I should look into converting to some other data structure here.
--b.
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