On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 1:50:15 PM CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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 :) > Hi Greg, I'm really grateful to you for having applied that patch notwithstanding the lack of response from Unisys. Understanding IDR, XArray, and the flow of the code, has been a hard task for a newcomer having only a month of experience to kernel development. Thanks very much, Fabio > > thanks, > > greg k-h
