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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ida: Introduce ida_weight()
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 17:46:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUPgaAN71ERvQ5/F@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231102153455.1252-2-michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 04:34:53PM +0100, Michal Wajdeczko wrote:
> Add helper function that will calculate number of allocated IDs
> in the IDA.  This might be helpful both for drivers to estimate
> saturation of used IDs and for testing the IDA implementation.

Since you take & release the lock, the value is already somewhat racy.
So why use the lock at all?  Wouldn't the RCU read lock be a better
approach?

Also, does it make sense to specify it over a particular range rather
than over the whole IDA?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-02 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-02 15:34 [PATCH 0/3] ida: Allow allocations of contiguous IDs Michal Wajdeczko
2023-11-02 15:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] ida: Introduce ida_weight() Michal Wajdeczko
2023-11-02 17:46   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-11-02 19:05     ` Michal Wajdeczko
2024-01-09 20:52     ` Michal Wajdeczko
2023-11-02 15:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] ida: Introduce ida_alloc_group_range() Michal Wajdeczko
2024-01-09 20:58   ` Michal Wajdeczko
2023-11-02 15:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] ida: Add kunit based tests for new IDA functions Michal Wajdeczko
2023-11-02 17:43   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-02 18:58     ` Michal Wajdeczko
2023-11-02 19:12       ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-02 20:58         ` Michal Wajdeczko
2023-11-02 21:01           ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-02 21:33             ` Michal Wajdeczko

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