Re: [PATCHv3 0/1] Update SCSI hosts to use idr for host number mgmt

[Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>]

Duplicate email, please ignore

On 10/07/2015 04:47 PM, Lee Duncan wrote:
> This patch updates the SCSI hosts module to use the idr
> index-management routines to manage its host_no index instead
> of using an ATOMIC integer. This means that host numbers
> can now be reclaimed and re-used.
> 
> It also updates the hosts module to use the idr routine idr_find()
> to lookup hosts based on the host number, hopefully speeding
> up said lookup.
> 
> After noticing that my idr calling sequences where very close
> to those in other modules, I considered creating some idr helper
> functions (and using them), but because idr usage almost always
> requires the caller to manage their own locks, I gave up on
> this approach (as suggested by Tejon -- thank you).
> 
> Changes from v1:
>  - no longer using helper routines
> Changes from v2:
>  - added back missing scsi_host_get() in scsi_host_lookup()
> 
> Lee Duncan (1):
>   SCSI: update hosts module to use idr index management
> 
>  drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 

-- 
Lee Duncan
SUSE Labs