linux-kernel - Re: Please pull IDR rewrite

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwUN7U5KJPc+Ybc-oDN2GQ8AFsjbSWhwSrGXy6=06uPtw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:38:09 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please pull IDR rewrite

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> The most significant part of the following is the patch to rewrite the
> IDR & IDA to be clients of the radix tree.

Could you give a bit more details about what this rewrite brings with
it, for the merge message and peoples edification?

              Linus