Re: [PATCH][RFC] fast file mapping for loop

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Jan 10 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > loop maintains a prio tree of known 
> > > extents in the file (populated lazily on demand, as needed).
> > 
> > Just a quick question (I haven't looked closely at the code): how come
> > you are using a prio tree for extents? I don't think they could be
> > overlapping?
> 
> IMHO this shouldn't be done in the loop driver anyway.  Filesystems have
> their own effricient extent lookup trees (well, at least xfs and btrfs
> do), and we should leverage that instead of reinventing it.

Completely agree, it's just needed right now for this solution since all
we have is a crappy bmap() interface to get at those mappings.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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