Re: [PATCH 10/10] dmapool: improve scalability of dma_pool_free

From: Keith Busch
Date: Tue May 31 2022 - 17:54:32 EST


On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 02:23:44PM -0400, Tony Battersby wrote:
> dma_pool_free() scales poorly when the pool contains many pages because
> pool_find_page() does a linear scan of all allocated pages. Improve its
> scalability by replacing the linear scan with a red-black tree lookup.
> In big O notation, this improves the algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n * log n).

The improvement should say O(n) to O(log n), right?