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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/3] idr: Use unsigned long instead of int
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:44:10 +0300
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:12:16PM -0400, Chris Mi wrote:
> IDR uses internally radix tree which uses unsigned long. It doesn't
> makes sense to have index as signed value.

It doesn't. But it makes sense to use "unsigned int" because it
generates smaller code on x86_64.