linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Improve virtio ID allocation

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Date:   Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:53:39 +0100
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Improve virtio ID allocation

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 09:00:27AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I noticed you were using IDRs where you could be using the more efficient
> IDAs, then while fixing that I noticed the lack of error handling,
> and I decided to follow that up with an efficiency improvement.
> 
> There's probably a v2 of this to follow because I couldn't figure
> out how to properly handle one of the error cases ... see the comment
> embedded in one of the patches.

#1 + #2 pushed to drm-misc-next now.
#3 should not be needed any more.
waiting for v2 of #4 ...

cheers,
  Gerd