Re: [PATCH 03/11] target: use idr for se_device dev index

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On 06/21/2017 01:13 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 16:47 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
>> In the next patches we will add tcmu netlink support that allows
>> userspace to send commands to target_core_user. To execute operations
>> on a se_device/tcmu_dev we need to be able to look up a dev by any old
>> id. This patch replaces the se_device->dev_index with a idr created
>> id.
>>
>> The next patches will also remove the g_device_list and replace it with
>> the idr.
> 
> Hello Mike,
> 
> Although this patch looks fine to me I would appreciate it if all uses of
> scsi_get_new_index() would be converted into IDR. It doesn't make sense to
> me to use a single data structure (scsi_mib_index[]) to keep track of
> indexes of HBA instances, device instances and ACL instances.
> 

Just to make sure I understood you, do you mean have one idr for hba,
acl and dev index ids or one idr for acl, one for hba, etc?


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