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Message-ID: <20130321140618.GD27838@fieldses.org> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:06:18 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, skinsbursky@...allels.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, jmorris@...ei.org, axboe@...nel.dk, jlayton@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] idr: implement idr_alloc() and convert existing users 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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