Hello, On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 09:46:01AM -0700, Lee Duncan wrote: > +/** > + * ida_get_index - allocate a ida index value > + * @ida idr handle > + * @lock spinlock handle protecting this index > + * @p_id pointer to allocated index value > + * > + * A helper function for safely allocating an index value (id), > + * returning a negative errno value on failure, else 0. > + */ > +static inline int ida_get_index(struct ida *ida, spinlock_t *lock, int *p_id) > +{ > + int error = -ENOMEM; > + > + do { > + if (!ida_pre_get(ida, GFP_KERNEL)) > + break; > + spin_lock(lock); > + error = ida_get_new(ida, p_id); > + spin_unlock(lock); > + } while (error == -EAGAIN); > + > + return error; > +} Obviously ida allocation doesn't need to be synchronized against anything else. Why not just use ida_simple_get/remove()? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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