linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: Convert ID allocation to an IDA

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2017 09:47:12 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...uxonhyperv.com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: Convert ID allocation to an IDA

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 08:57:51AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
> 
> dmaengine currently uses an IDR to allocate DMA IDs, but it only needs
> to know whether IDs are in use or not; the ID to pointer functionality
> of the IDR is unused.  That means it can use the more space-efficient IDA.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod