Re: [PATCH] Radix-tree pagecache for 2.5

Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:22:47 +0100


In article <15448.28224.481925.430169@gargle.gargle.HOWL> you wrote:
> Isn't this a good place to use AVL trees then, since they balance
> automatically? Admittedly, it may be more overhead than we want in
> the case where the tree is balanced by default anyway.

OpenUnix uses AVL trees for the pagecache. The overhead in struct page
is immense..
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