linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] XArray for 4.19

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Date:   Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:40:18 +0000
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] XArray for 4.19

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Please consider pulling the XArray patch set.  The XArray provides an
> improved interface to the radix tree data structure, providing locking
> as part of the API, specifying GFP flags at allocation time, eliminating
> preloading, less re-walking the tree, more efficient iterations and not
> exposing RCU-protected pointers to its users.

Is this going in this cycle? I have a bunch of stuff on top of this to
enable slab object migration.