Re: Maple Tree Work

[Peng Zhang]

在 2023/7/14 20:57, Matthew Wilcox 写道:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 05:58:13PM +0800, Peng Zhang wrote:
> > I have a question I want to discuss here. I noticed that the interface
> > of maple tree has three different prefixes, namely mtree_*, mt_*, mas_*.
> > I am curious why the interfaces prefixed with mtree_* and mt_* cannot be
> > unified? I think they can be changed to mtree_* to avoid two different
> > prefixes.
>
> I haven't worried about this too much.  The long-term goal is to use
> the maple tree data structure to replace the radix tree data structure
> underlying the xarray and use the xarray API to access the maple tree.
> The xarray API will need some enhancements to make this work, but churning
> the maple tree API doesn't seem like a good use of effort.
If there are two prefixes, mt_ and mtree_, I will be confused which
prefix to use when adding a new API. Users will also be confused when
they see the two prefixes mt_ and mtree_. However, renaming the API
is not a good thing either.