Re: [PATCH v2] lib: test bitmap vs IDA vs Maple Tree performance for region allocations
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 11:13:03 EST
On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 08:52:52PM -0400, Yury Norov wrote:
> The test is very well motivated by that discussion. I'm not saying
> it compares apples to apples. I'm trying to quantify the answer to a
> very specific question: what is better for NOVA ID allocator. Or more
> broadly: what's the best data structure for range ID allocators of a
> given capacity.
>From my work with the IDA, there are definitely ID allocators which
allocate only a single ID, less than ten or less than a hundred. Could
you scale the benchmark down to 10 and 100 rather than starting at 1000?