On 10/7/24 7:06 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
Still seems way over engineered, just use an atomic_long_t for a continually increasing index number.
Even an atomic_long_t can wrap around and hence can result in duplicate slab cache names. With my patch it is guaranteed that slab cache names are unique. I'm not claiming that this patch is the best possible solution but it's a working solution and a solution that doesn't require too many changes to the ib_srpt driver. Bart.
