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From: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] XArray
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:56:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0AB62846-5A8B-4487-A4F9-1322B2B6E19B@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFhKne8YNpGZbXk-KTN1mA9WBW1=NSVBo7RU0rYX9pbVgfj_Sg@mail.gmail.com>



> On Nov 13, 2018, at 11:02 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy6545@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Now that the XArray is in, it's time to make use of it. I've got a git tree which converts every current user of the radix tree to the XArray as well as converting some users of the IDA to the XArray.
> 
> The XArray may also be a great replacement for a list_head in your data structure.
> 
> I can also talk about currently inappropriate uses for the XArray and what I might do in future to make the XArray useful for more users.

I hope you'll also cover multi-order usage, e.g. for huge page size support in the page cache.

Thanks!
    -- Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-14 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-13 18:02 Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-13 22:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-14 10:02 ` Linus Walleij
2018-11-14 16:29   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-15 23:03   ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-11-16  2:47     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-16  6:30       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-14 22:56 ` William Kucharski [this message]
2018-11-15  1:07   ` Matthew Wilcox

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