linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/17] Add ida and idr helper routines.

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Message-ID: <55FC30E2.8020000@suse.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2015 08:42:26 -0700
From:	Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] Add ida and idr helper routines.

On 09/15/2015 11:41 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:38:42AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
>> For most of the SCSI stuff, yes.  I'm less sure about the sd numbers.
>> They go up very high and get hammered a lot during system bring up and
>> hot plug.  I think having their own lock rather than wrapping everything
>> around simple_ida_lock makes more sense here just because the system is
>> heavily contended on getting indexes at bring up.
>>
>> To continue the thought, why not move simple_ida_lock into struct ida so
>> we don't have to worry about the contention and can sue ida_simple_...
>> everywhere?
> 
> We sure can do that if necessary but I'm rather doubtful that even
> with sd number hammering this is likely to be a problem.  Let's
> convert the users to the simple interface and make the lock per-ida if
> we actually see contention on the lock.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

To be clear: you would like a patch series that converts the users of
the ida_* routines in my patches to instead use the ida_simple_*
routines, correct? And of course the ida_* helper routines I was adding
in idr.h would not be needed.

If this is correct, I will supply a version 2 patch series that
addresses this issue as well as the two patch-naming issues that were
raised.
-- 
Lee Duncan

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