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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Blum <bblum@google.com>,
	lizf@cn.fujitzu.com, serue@us.ibm.com,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Adds a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that  shows only unique tgids
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:10:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090703111016.ceb28541.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6599ad830907031054x74d90149y38aae60afa403d58@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:54:48 -0700 Paul Menage <menage@google.com> wrote:

> >__Unfortunately radix-trees are presented as operating on
> > void* data, so one would need to do some typecasting when storing
> > BITS_PER_LONG-sized bitfields inside them.
> 
> That would mean adding something a bit like the IDA wrapper that
> converts IDR to deal with bitfields?

I guess so.

> Is the benefit of avoiding a vmalloc() at all costs really worth the
> additional complexity

Well no.  But nor was it worth the additional complexity the last twenty
times someone resorted to vmalloc to solve a problem of this nature.  Taking
a kernel-wide perspective here gives a different answer.

However I don't think a little scoreboarding thing (what's the correct
term) built around radix-trees would suffice to solve many of those
past sins.  Whereas a general dynamic array thing would be applicable
in many cases.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-03 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-02 23:26 [PATCH 0/2] CGroups: cgroup member list enhancement/fix Paul Menage
2009-07-02 23:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] Adds a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids Paul Menage
2009-07-02 23:46   ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-03  0:31     ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-03  0:53       ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-03  1:08         ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03  1:17           ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-03  2:08             ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-03  4:16               ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03  6:55                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-03  7:54                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-03 16:11                   ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03 16:50                     ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-03 17:54                       ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03 18:10                         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-07-15  8:33                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-07-15 16:18                             ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03  2:25             ` Matt Helsley
2009-07-03  3:49               ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03  7:08               ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-03  1:30           ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-03  5:54             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-03 15:52               ` Paul Menage
2009-07-04  2:07                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-04 16:10                   ` Paul Menage
2009-07-05 23:53                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-07-02 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] Ensures correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid namespaces Paul Menage
2009-07-02 23:54   ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-03  0:22     ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03  0:26       ` Paul Menage
2009-07-03  0:43     ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-03  1:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] CGroups: cgroup member list enhancement/fix Li Zefan
2009-07-05  6:38 ` Balbir Singh
2009-07-10 23:58   ` Paul Menage
2009-07-13 12:11     ` Balbir Singh
2009-07-13 16:26       ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14  5:56         ` Balbir Singh
2009-07-14  6:49           ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14  7:16             ` Balbir Singh
2009-07-14 17:34               ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-14 17:43                 ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14 20:38                   ` Paul Menage
2009-07-14 23:08                     ` Matt Helsley

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