From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: willy@infradead.org, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mawilcox@microsoft.com,
david@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
mgorman@techsingularity.net, aarcange@redhat.com,
amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com,
quan.xu@aliyun.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 3/7] xbitmap: add more operations
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:26:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171215202238-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201712160121.BEJ26052.HOFFOOQFMLtSVJ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 01:21:52AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> My understanding is that virtio-balloon wants to handle sparsely spreaded
> unsigned long values (which is PATCH 4/7) and wants to find all chunks of
> consecutive "1" bits efficiently. Therefore, I guess that holding the values
> in ascending order at store time is faster than sorting the values at read
> time.
Are you asking why is a bitmap used here, as opposed to a tree? It's
not just store versus read. There's also the issue that memory can get
highly fragmented, if it is, the number of 1s is potentially very high.
A bitmap can use as little as 1 bit per value, it is hard to beat in
this respect.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-15 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 11:55 [PATCH v19 0/7] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 1/7] xbitmap: Introduce xbitmap Wei Wang
2017-12-12 12:53 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-12-15 11:05 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-15 13:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 10:10 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 2/7] xbitmap: potential improvement Wei Wang
2017-12-15 3:07 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 3/7] xbitmap: add more operations Wei Wang
2017-12-12 13:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-13 12:26 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-13 14:16 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-14 3:47 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-14 11:47 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-12-14 16:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-14 18:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-15 16:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-15 18:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-12-16 4:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-16 5:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 5:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-15 18:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-15 19:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-17 13:47 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-17 22:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-18 2:33 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-18 2:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 10:14 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-14 12:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-15 18:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-12-16 10:12 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-16 11:28 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-17 5:24 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-17 10:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-17 11:50 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-12-17 15:16 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-12-18 8:05 ` Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 4/7] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 5/7] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 6/7] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_VQ Wei Wang
2017-12-12 11:55 ` [PATCH v19 7/7] virtio-balloon: don't report free pages when page poisoning is enabled Wei Wang
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