Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?]

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 20:45:04 EST

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:35:20AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> to use a hash table instead of a table lookup. Bill Irwin suggested a btree
> would work here as well.

I remember suggesting a sorted array of extents on which binary
search could be performed. A B-tree seems unlikely but perhaps if
it were contiguously allocated and some other tricks done it might
do, maybe I don't remember the special sauce used for the occasion.

Cheers,
Bill
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