Re: [patch 10/15] fs/logfs/memtree.c

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

On Thu, 10 April 2008 16:07:44 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008, joern@logfs.org wrote:
> > +#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
> > +#define BTREE_NODES 20 /* 32bit, 240 byte nodes */
> > +#else
> > +#define BTREE_NODES 16 /* 64bit, 256 byte nodes */
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +struct btree_node {
> > +       u64 key;
> > +       struct btree_node *node;
> > +};
> 
> On 32 bit platforms other than x86, your struct btree_node
> is 16 bytes long because of alignment requirements, rather
> than the 12 bytes you are assuming.

Indeed.  Will change the definition.

Long-term I'd like to generalize the btree a bit and allow three key
variants: long, u64 and u8[].  Some people want to stuff a
(u64, u64, u8) tupel into a btree.  For those it seems ideal to just
treat the key as an array and do memcmp() for comparison.

Jörn

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