Re: [PATCH -mm v2 01/11] mm: track free size between VMAs in VMA rbtree

[Michel Lespinasse]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 07:46 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>> Basically, I think lib/rbtree.c should provide augmented rbtree support
>> in the form of (versions of) rb_insert_color() and rb_erase() being able
>> to
>> callback to adjust the augmented node information around tree rotations,
>> instead of using (conservative, overkill) loops to adjust the augmented
>> node information after the fact
>
> That is what I originally worked on.
>
> I threw out that code after people told me (at LSF/MM) in
> no uncertain terms that I should use the augmented rbtree
> code :)

Well, bummer. Could you summarize what their argument was ? In other
words, what are the constraints besides not adding overhead to the
scheduler rbtree use case and keeping the code size reasonable ?

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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