Re: [PATCH] Fixed a mismatch between the users of radix_tree and the implementation.

[Salman Qazi]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Salman Qazi <sqazi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 11:30 -0700, Salman Qazi wrote:
>> > For the delete case,
>> > we no longer shrink the tree back to being just the root containing the
>> > only remaining object.  For the insert case, we no longer store the
>> > first object in the root, rather allocating a node structure for it.  The
>> > reason that this works is that deleting (or inserting) intermediate nodes
>> > does not make a difference to a reader holding a slot.
>>
>> Ah, I through that was what it did. So you basically increase the memory
>> footprint for tiny files.. have you done any measurements on that?
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You raise a valid concern.  I haven't.  What would you recommend as a
benchmark/metric to measure this?
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