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Message-ID: <20080110084457.GT6258@kernel.dk>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:44:57 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chris.mason@...cle.com,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] fast file mapping for loop
On Thu, Jan 10 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > loop maintains a prio tree of known
> > > extents in the file (populated lazily on demand, as needed).
> >
> > Just a quick question (I haven't looked closely at the code): how come
> > you are using a prio tree for extents? I don't think they could be
> > overlapping?
>
> IMHO this shouldn't be done in the loop driver anyway. Filesystems have
> their own effricient extent lookup trees (well, at least xfs and btrfs
> do), and we should leverage that instead of reinventing it.
Completely agree, it's just needed right now for this solution since all
we have is a crappy bmap() interface to get at those mappings.
--
Jens Axboe
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