Re: [PATCH v3 00/33] Radix tree patches for 4.10

Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-11-29T11:25:13Z

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:50:04PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Please include these patches in the -mm tree for 4.10. Mostly these
> are improvements; the only bug fixes in here relate to multiorder
> entries (which are unused in the 4.9 tree). The IDR rewrite has the
> highest potential for causing mayhem as the test suite is quite spartan.
> We have an Outreachy intern scheduled to work on the test suite for the
> 2016 winter season, so hopefully it will improve soon.
>
> I did not include Konstantin's suggested change to the API for
> radix_tree_iter_resume(). Many of the callers do not currently care
> about the size of the entry they are consuming, and determining that
> information is not always trivial. Since this is not a performance
> critical API (it's called when we've paused iterating through a tree
> in order to schedule for a higher priority task), I think it's more
> important to have a simpler interface.
>
> I'd like to thank Kiryl for all the testing he's been doing. He's found
> at least two bugs which weren't related to the API extensions that he
> really wanted from this patch set.

Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

I would like to get in as my ext4 patchset depends on this.

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Kirill A. Shutemov