linux-kernel - Re: Generic B-tree implementation

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Message-ID: <4745278c0607190634l3ab43bb7t3d2a7b80c22d44c4@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:34:43 -0400
From:	"Vishal Patil" <vishpat@...il.com>
To:	"Anton Altaparmakov" <aia21@....ac.uk>
Cc:	"Gary Funck" <gary@...repid.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generic B-tree implementation

I can get rid of recursions using loops, will need to work a little more on it.

Also I will be working on developing a patch for VM management using
B-trees instead of RB-trees.

- Vishal

On 7/19/06, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:22 -0400, Vishal Patil wrote:
> > B-trees are good for parellel updates as well. Anyway it would be
> > great to have inputs from other folks about how B-trees could help
> > inside the kernel (if at all)
>
> B-trees are mostly used in file systems in the kernel.  For example NTFS
> and HFS (and I think HPFS) use B-trees for various metadata like
> directory indexes for example.
>
> But of course your implementation is purely userspace and cannot be used
> in the kernel (you use recursion for example...) so I am not sure how
> you envisage to help the kernel with your code...
>
> Best regards,
>
>         Anton
> --
> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
> Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
> Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
> WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
>
>


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