linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc

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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 10:19:34 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 12:56:30PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> There was no real need for this code to be using flexarrays, it's just
> implementing a hash table - ideally it would be using rhashtables, but
> that conversion would be significantly more complicated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
> Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>
> Cc: dev@...nvswitch.org

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>