Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the ida tree
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Jul 18 2018 - 09:31:32 EST
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:27:46PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:14:46AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > So Varsha, if you would like to take a look at transforming table->sets
> > from a LIST_HEAD to an IDR, I think that would be a great use of your
> > time.
>
> Please, don't do so, we don't need a radix tree datastructure, it's
> just more complexity.
It's no more complex to use than the list_* macros.
> We just wanted to have a simple way to allocate IDs using a bitmap
> structure in the background without reinventing the wheel.