James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Of course, if we're going to go to all this trouble, the next question > that arises naturally is why not just reuse the radix-tree code to > implement idr anyway ... ? Yes, we could probably have gone that way. radix-tree would need some enhancements for the find-next-above thing. radix-tree has some features (tags, gang-lookup, gang-lookup-by-tag) which idr doesn't. Fitting them all into the one storage API would be nice, I guess. radix-tree does potentially use more memory, although that'll only be significant for collections which are both large and sparse. Still, people can use either facility at present. The person who does any such consolidation would do the kernel-wide migration at the same time. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
