Re: [patch net-next repost 1/3] idr: Use unsigned long instead of int

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2017-08-16 at 12:53 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:

> rhashtable is unnecesary big hammer for this. IDR is nice fit for
> this purpose.

Obviously IDR does not fit, since you have to change its ABI.

If rhashtable does not fit this, then I wonder why we spent so many days
of work adding it in the kernel.