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From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com,
	David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v5] staging: unisys: visorhba: Convert module from IDR to XArray
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 20:41:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2381635.6tjctmx4mM@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJAlWJXDnK9KLg2H@kroah.com>

On Monday, May 3, 2021 6:31:20 PM CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 05:07:19PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > Converted visorhba from IDR to XArray. The abstract data type XArray is
> > more memory-efficient, parallelisable and cache friendly. It takes
> > advantage of RCU to perform lookups without locking.
> 
> And does any of that affect the runtime of this driver?
>
Unfortunately, I cannot tell. I had cc'ed the maintainer at Unisys but no 
response at all at now.
> 
> I would need this to be tested by the maintainer before I could do
> anything, and a review from willy@ would be also appreciated as I'm
> guessing he asked you to do this?
>
I've contacted willy on #kernel-outreachy and said that you would appreciate a 
review from him. I hope he can find time to see that code.

Thanks,

Fabio
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h





  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27 15:07 Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-05-03 16:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-05-03 18:41   ` Fabio M. De Francesco [this message]
2021-05-03 18:26 ` Matthew Wilcox

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