Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 19:47:32 EST


On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 05:10:45PM -0500, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian wrote:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107966438414248
>
> Andrea says the system may hang, however, in this case system
> does not hang.

It's a live lock, not a deadlock. I didn't wait more than a few minutes
every time before declaring the kernel broken and rebooting the machine.
still if the prio_tree fixed my problem it means at the very least it
reduced the contention on the locks a lot ;)

It would be curious to test it after changing the return 1 to return 0
in the page_referenced trylock failures?

the results looks great, thanks.

what about the cost of a tree rebalance, is that O(log(N)) like with the
rbtrees?
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