Re: [PATCH] drivers/base/memory.c: memory subsys init: skip search for missing blocks

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Fri Nov 01 2019 - 18:47:56 EST




> Am 01.11.2019 um 23:32 schrieb Rick Lindsley <ricklind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> ïOn 11/1/19 12:00 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> No, I don't really like that. Can we please speed up the lookup via a radix tree as noted in the comment of "find_memory_block()".
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> I agree with the general sentiment that a redesign is the correct long term action - it has been for some time now - but implementing a new storage and retrieval method and verifying that it introduces no new problems itself is non-trivial. There's a reason it remains a comment.
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> I don't see any issues with the patch itself. Do we really want to forego the short term, low-hanging, low risk fruit in favor of waiting indefinitely for that well-tested long-term solution?

The low hanging fruit for me is to convert it to a simple VM_BUG_ON(). As I said, this should never really happen with current code.

Also, I donât think adding a radix tree here is rocket science and takes indefinitely ;) feel free to prove me wrong.

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> Rick