On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:40:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:24:46 +0200 Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Rather than sign direct radix-tree pointers with a special bit, sign
> > the indirect one that hangs off the root. This means that, given a
> > lookup_slot operation, the invalid result will be differentiated from
> > the valid (previously, valid results could have the bit either set or
> > clear).
> >
> > This does not affect slot lookups which occur under lock -- they
> > can never return an invalid result. Is needed in future for lockless
> > pagecache.
>
> so.. we added 30 bytes of text to radix-tree.o for no purpose?
I guess no functional purpose at this stage. But I do like this
scheme better anyway, because it means that locked API users are
never exposed to the direct/indirect bit.
It's a bit variable... on powerpc, it _removed_ 22 bytes, and if
I delete the extra BUG_ON that I introduced, then it removes 128
bytes.
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