From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9349B89B for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imap.thunk.org (imap.thunk.org [74.207.234.97]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E0107C3 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:29:30 -0500 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" To: Linus Walleij Message-ID: <20181114162930.GA15807@thunk.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TOPIC] XArray List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:02:54AM +0100, Linus Walleij 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. It will video taped and should be available on the Linux Plumber's Conference You Tube channel by next week, perhaps sooner. - Ted