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From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] idr: Document ida tree sections
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:59:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813225927.GA2000@kmo-pixel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130813224428.GG28996@mtj.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:44:28PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Kent.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:27:59PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > It's only naturally a radix tree problem _if_ you require sparseness.
> 
> Well, it's not necessarily about requiring it but more about surviving
> it with some grace when things don't go as expected, which is an
> important characteristic for common library stuff.

The patch I posted should solve the high order allocations stuff, and
sparseness from cyclic allocations was already solved.

> > Otherwise, radix trees require pointer chasing, which we can avoid -
> > which saves us both the cost of chasing pointers (which is significant)
> > and the overhead of storing them.
> 
> Vast majority of which can be avoided with simple caching, right?

Whatever caching optimizations you do with a radix tree version I could
apply to this bitmap tree version, and my bitmap tree code is simpler
and _considerably_ faster than the existing code.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-07 17:34 IDA/IDR rewrite, percpu ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:34 ` [PATCH 03/10] idr: Rewrite ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 20:22   ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-07 20:51     ` [PATCH] idr: Document ida tree sections Kent Overstreet
2013-08-09 14:57       ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 22:13         ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-13 22:19           ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 22:27             ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-13 22:44               ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 22:59                 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2013-08-13 23:22                   ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 23:51                     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-13 23:59                       ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-15  0:04                         ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-15  0:22                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-13 22:33         ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:34 ` [PATCH 04/10] idr: Percpu ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:56   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-07 18:33     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 19:40       ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-07 19:57         ` [PATCH] idr: Use this_cpu_ptr() for percpu_ida Kent Overstreet
2013-08-08 14:32           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-20 21:19             ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-08-20 21:29               ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-21  2:01                 ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21  2:07                   ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21  2:31                     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 11:59                       ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21 21:09                         ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 21:16                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21 21:24                             ` Kent Overstreet
2013-08-21 21:31                               ` Tejun Heo
2013-08-21 14:32               ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-21 17:49                 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-08-21 20:49                 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-22 16:44                   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-22 16:56                     ` Jens Axboe
2013-08-07 17:46 ` [PATCH 05/10] idr: Kill old deprecated idr interfaces Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:46 ` [PATCH 06/10] idr: Rename idr_get_next() -> idr_find_next() Kent Overstreet
2013-08-07 17:46 ` [PATCH 08/10] idr: Reimplement idr on top of ida/radix trees Kent Overstreet

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