linux-kernel - [PATCHv2 0/1] Update SCSI hosts to use idr for host number mgmt

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Message-Id: <cover.1444085255.git.lduncan@suse.com>
Date:	Mon,  5 Oct 2015 16:01:10 -0700
From:	Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>
To:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCHv2 0/1] Update SCSI hosts to use idr for host number mgmt

This patch updates the SCSI hosts module to use the idr
index-management routines to manage its host_no index instead
of using an ATOMIC integer. This means that host numbers
can now be reclaimed and re-used.

It also updates the hosts module to use the idr routine idr_find()
to lookup hosts based on the host number, hopefully speeding
up said lookup.

After noticing that my idr calling sequences where very close
to those in other modules, I considered creating some idr helper
functions (and using them), but because idr usage almost always
requires the caller to manage their own locks, I gave up on
this approach (as suggested by Tejon -- thank you).

Lee Duncan (1):
  SCSI: update hosts module to use idr index management

 drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.4

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