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* [PATCHv3 0/1] Update SCSI hosts to use idr for host number mgmt
@ 2015-10-06 19:08 Lee Duncan
  2015-10-06 19:08 ` [PATCHv3 1/1] SCSI: update hosts module to use idr index management Lee Duncan
  2015-10-07 23:52 ` [PATCHv3 0/1] Update SCSI hosts to use idr for host number mgmt Lee Duncan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Lee Duncan @ 2015-10-06 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-scsi, linux-kernel
  Cc: Lee Duncan, James Bottomley, Tejun Heo, Hannes Reinecke,
	Johannes Thumshirn, Christoph Hellwig

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(-)

-- 
2.1.4

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