Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v5] staging: unisys: visorhba: Convert module from IDR to XArray

[Fabio M. De Francesco]

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