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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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?

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?

thanks,

greg k-h