Re: [GIT PULL] XArray for 4.19

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Wed Aug 22 2018 - 13:40:22 EST


On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> Please consider pulling the XArray patch set. The XArray provides an
> improved interface to the radix tree data structure, providing locking
> as part of the API, specifying GFP flags at allocation time, eliminating
> preloading, less re-walking the tree, more efficient iterations and not
> exposing RCU-protected pointers to its users.

Is this going in this cycle? I have a bunch of stuff on top of this to
enable slab object migration.