linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the ida tree

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Message-ID: <20180718133126.GD4949@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:31:26 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        NetFilter <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@...il.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the ida tree

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:27:46PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:14:46AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > So Varsha, if you would like to take a look at transforming table->sets
> > from a LIST_HEAD to an IDR, I think that would be a great use of your
> > time.
> 
> Please, don't do so, we don't need a radix tree datastructure, it's
> just more complexity.

It's no more complex to use than the list_* macros.

> We just wanted to have a simple way to allocate IDs using a bitmap
> structure in the background without reinventing the wheel.