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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speed up the cdrw packet writing driver
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:43:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040823114329.GI2301@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33c2py1m1.fsf@telia.com>

On Sat, Aug 14 2004, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This patch replaces the pd->bio_queue linked list with an rbtree.  The
> list can get very long (>200000 entries on a 1GB machine), so keeping
> it sorted with a naive algorithm is far too expensive.

It looks like you are assuming that bio->bi_sector is unique which isn't
necessarily true. In that respect, list -> rbtree conversion isn't
trivial (or, at least it requires extra code to handle this).

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-23 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-14 19:13 [PATCH] Speed up the cdrw packet writing driver Peter Osterlund
2004-08-23 11:43 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-08-23 16:07   ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-24 20:29     ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-24 21:04       ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-24 21:47         ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-24 21:57           ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 13:52             ` Alan Cox
2004-08-24 22:03           ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-24 22:56             ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-25  5:38               ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-25  6:50         ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-28  9:59           ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-28 13:07             ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-28 18:42               ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-28 19:45                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 20:57                   ` Peter Osterlund
2004-08-28 21:23                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 12:17                       ` Peter Osterlund

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