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Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager

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Hi Jiri,

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
> Web:        https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/44091d29f2075972aede47ef17e1e70db3d51190
> Commit:     44091d29f2075972aede47ef17e1e70db3d51190
> Parent:     b862815c3ee7b49ec20a9ab25da55a5f0bcbb95e
> Refname:    refs/heads/master
> Author:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> AuthorDate: Fri Feb 3 10:29:06 2017 +0100
> Committer:  David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> CommitDate: Fri Feb 3 16:35:42 2017 -0500
>
>     lib: Introduce priority array area manager
>
>     This introduces a infrastructure for management of linear priority
>     areas. Priority order in an array matters, however order of items inside
>     a priority group does not matter.
>
>     As an initial implementation, L-sort algorithm is used. It is quite
>     trivial. More advanced algorithm called P-sort will be introduced as a
>     follow-up. The infrastructure is prepared for other algos.
>
>     Alongside this, a testing module is introduced as well.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

> --- a/lib/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> @@ -550,4 +550,7 @@ config STACKDEPOT
>  config SBITMAP
>         bool
>
> +config PARMAN
> +       tristate "parman"

| parman (PARMAN) [N/m/y] (NEW) ?
|
| There is no help available for this option.

Can you please add a description for this option?
Or drop the "parman" string if this is always selected by its kernel users, and
never intended to be enabled by the end user.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

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Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-02-23 09:00 +0100
  Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-02-23 09:40 +0100
    Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> - 2017-02-23 10:30 +0100
    Re: lib: Introduce priority array area manager Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-02-23 10:30 +0100

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