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From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:02:54 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 7:02 PM 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.

This sounds like awesome.

I hope there will be an LWN article coming out of this for those of us
who cannot participate in person.

Yours,
Linus Walleij