linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Modify ida_* users to use ida_simple

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Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:52:48 -0700
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>, 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>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
	Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@...ibm.com>,
	Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Modify ida_* users to use ida_simple_*

On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 13:44 -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:59:04AM -0700, Lee Duncan wrote:
> > The ida index management routines are used in several
> > driver modules to manage allocation and release of
> > index values. Reviewing the way in which the
> > ida routines were called, together with the small
> > number of such clients, led to the belief that
> > these users should all be able to share a simple
> > built-in lock in the ida module by calling the
> > ida_simple_*() functions instead of the non-simple
> > versions. This means that ida does all the
> > required locking so that clients don't have to
> > manage that.
> 
> The whole series looks good to me.  Please feel free to add

Since they're all independent, they can go via the correct trees without
adverse consequences.  It's probably me: 1/5; Jens 2-4/5; Greg 5/5

James


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