linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] openvswitch: convert to genradix

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Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 18:24:28 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
        dev@...nvswitch.org, shli@...nel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] openvswitch: convert to genradix

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 05:34:01AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:18:19PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > the new generic radix trees have a simpler API and implementation, and
> > no limitations on number of elements, so all flex_array users are being
> > converted
> 
> This doesn't really feel like it should be a flexarray / genradix user.
> It just wants to allocate a lot of buckets and use them.  Maybe kvmalloc
> is the right approach for this user of flexarray?

Yeah probably, or a rhashtable.

Now that you mention it, I think the md code should definitely be using kvmalloc
too.