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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>
Cc: Rajesh Venkatasubramanian <vrajesh@umich.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Generalize prio_tree (1/3)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:30:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <419830FD.7000007@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041114235646.K28802@almesberger.net>

Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Hi Rajesh,
> 
> perhaps you remember me posting a long time ago about generalizing
> prio_tree. Now I finally got to make that patch. In fact, there are
> three parts:
> 
>  - the prio_tree "core" in lib/
>  - switching mm/prio_tree.c to use the "core"
>  - some debugging extensions
> 
> The reason for wanting this generalization is that we'll also need
> radix priority search trees for healthier barrier handling in the
> IO scheduler (aka disk elevator).
> 

I'm curious, how do you plan to use them for healthier barrier handling?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-15  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-15  2:56 [RFC] Generalize prio_tree (1/3) Werner Almesberger
2004-11-15  2:59 ` [RFC] Make MM use generalized prio_tree (2/3) Werner Almesberger
2004-11-15  3:05   ` [RFC] prio_tree debugging functions (3/3) Werner Almesberger
2004-11-15  4:30 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-11-15  6:07   ` [RFC] Generalize prio_tree (1/3) Werner Almesberger
2004-11-15 11:01     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-15 14:32       ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-15 18:13 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-11-15 20:54   ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-15 21:14     ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-11-15 21:42       ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-15 22:27         ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-11-15 22:59           ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-16  0:07             ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-11-16  0:35               ` Werner Almesberger
2004-11-16  1:48                 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-11-16 23:51               ` Generalize prio_tree, 2nd try Werner Almesberger
2004-11-17  1:28                 ` Werner Almesberger

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