From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756151AbdLOS0v (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:26:51 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51106 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755406AbdLOS0t (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:26:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:26:22 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Tetsuo Handa 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 Message-ID: <20171215202238-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <5A311C5E.7000304@intel.com> <201712132316.EJJ57332.MFOSJHOFFVLtQO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <5A31F445.6070504@intel.com> <201712150129.BFC35949.FFtFOLSOJOQHVM@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <20171214181219.GA26124@bombadil.infradead.org> <201712160121.BEJ26052.HOFFOOQFMLtSVJ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201712160121.BEJ26052.HOFFOOQFMLtSVJ@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:26:49 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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