Re: [PATCH] anobjrmap 9 priority mjb tree

From: Dave McCracken (dmccr_at_us.ibm.com)
Date: 04/15/04

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    Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:42:09 -0500
    To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
    
    

    --On Thursday, April 15, 2004 18:50:42 +0100 Hugh Dickins
    <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:

    > Though I have to admit I'm sceptical: prio_tree appears to be well
    > designed for the issue in question, list-of-lists sounds, well,
    > no offence, but a bit of a hack.

    It is a bit of a hack, but the theory behind it is fairly simple. It came
    out of my early efforts to sort the list. Martin and I produced a theory
    that many vmas have identical start and end addresses due to fork and/or
    fixed address mappings. If this theory is true list-of-lists will create a
    much shorter top-level list of unique start-end pairs for searching. We'd
    only need to walk the second level list when we get a match to the search.

    It never got any serious exposure or testing. It came out just as
    everyone's attention shifted away from objrmap so no one really looked at
    it.

    Dave McCracken

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