Re: [PATCH v8 RESEND] staging: unisys: visorhba: Convert module from IDR to XArray

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On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:11:11AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> Converted visorhba from IDR to XArray. The abstract data type XArray is
> more memory-efficient, parallelizable, and cache friendly. It takes
> advantage of RCU to perform lookups without locking. Furthermore, IDR is
> deprecated because XArray has a better (cleaner and more consistent)
> API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Given a lack of response from the unisys maintainer, I'll go apply this
now and see what breaks :)

thanks,

greg k-h




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