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

Davidlohr Bueso
2019-10-04T19:36:27Z

On Fri, 04 Oct 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

>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.

Right, we should not have two implementations.

Thanks,
Davidlohr