Re: [PATCH -next 00/11] lib/interval-tree: move to half closed intervals

Matthew Wilcox
2019-10-04T16:03:58Z

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 06:15:11AM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> My take is that this (Davidlohr's) patch series does not necessarily
> need to be applied all at once - we could get the first change in
> (adding the interval_tree_gen.h header), and convert the first few
> users, without getting them all at once, as long as we have a plan for
> finishing the work. So, if you have cleanups in progress in some of
> the files, just tell us which ones and we can leave them out from the
> first pass.

Since we have users which do need to use the full ULONG_MAX range
(as pointed out by Christian Koenig), I don't think adding a second
implementation which is half-open is a good idea. It'll only lead to
confusion.