Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] target: use ida for hba and acl dev_index

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On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 04:10 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> The following patches are an attempt to replace the index counters
> with IDAs per your review comment in the other thread.
> 
> I was not sure if this is what you were requesting, so I am sending as a
> RFC initially. One other question I had about this code is do we need
> cyclic ID allocation? Did we only do this before because
> it was simple or were we worried about apps not refreshing properly 
> when a device was readded with the same name.
> 
> It seems like apps would always read the stats index file, then reference
> other files, but I am was not sure. If we do not need cyclic ID allocation,
> I will drop the first patch and not submit it to lkml when I repost
> as a non RFC.
> 
> These patches were made over Nick's for-next branch and my se_device idr
> patches in the thread
> "[PATCH V4 00/10] target/tcmu: make tcmu netlink ops sync".

Hello Mike,

Thanks for having implemented this. Although this is a behavior change,
personally I'm fine with leaving out patch 1/4. I am aware that this means
that IDs will be reused.

Nick, do you want to comment on this patch series?

Bart.--
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