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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the ida tree
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:31:26 -0700
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:27:46PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 06:14:46AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > So Varsha, if you would like to take a look at transforming table->sets
> > from a LIST_HEAD to an IDR, I think that would be a great use of your
> > time.
> 
> Please, don't do so, we don't need a radix tree datastructure, it's
> just more complexity.

It's no more complex to use than the list_* macros.

> We just wanted to have a simple way to allocate IDs using a bitmap
> structure in the background without reinventing the wheel.