Re: [PATCH v5 07/70] Maple Tree: Add new data structure

From: Liam Howlett
Date: Thu Feb 03 2022 - 12:29:24 EST


* Mark Hemment <markhemm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [220203 11:02]:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 02:42, Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The maple tree is an RCU-safe range based B-tree designed to use modern
> > processor cache efficiently. There are a number of places in the kernel
> > that a non-overlapping range-based tree would be beneficial, especially
> > one with a simple interface. The first user that is covered in this
> > patch set is the vm_area_struct, where three data structures are
> > replaced by the maple tree: the augmented rbtree, the vma cache, and the
> > linked list of VMAs in the mm_struct. The long term goal is to reduce
> > or remove the mmap_sem contention.
> >
> > The tree has a branching factor of 10 for non-leaf nodes and 16 for leaf
> > nodes. With the increased branching factor, it is significantly shorter than
> > the rbtree so it has fewer cache misses. The removal of the linked list
> > between subsequent entries also reduces the cache misses and the need to pull
> > in the previous and next VMA during many tree alterations.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 1 +
> > Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst | 196 +
> > MAINTAINERS | 12 +
> > include/linux/maple_tree.h | 673 ++
> > include/trace/events/maple_tree.h | 123 +
> > lib/Kconfig.debug | 9 +
> > lib/Makefile | 3 +-
> > lib/maple_tree.c | 6943 +++++++++++++++++
> > tools/testing/radix-tree/.gitignore | 2 +
> > tools/testing/radix-tree/Makefile | 13 +-
> > tools/testing/radix-tree/generated/autoconf.h | 1 +
> > tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/maple_tree.h | 7 +
> > tools/testing/radix-tree/maple.c | 59 +
> > .../radix-tree/trace/events/maple_tree.h | 3 +
> > 14 files changed, 8042 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/maple_tree.rst
> > create mode 100644 include/linux/maple_tree.h
> > create mode 100644 include/trace/events/maple_tree.h
> > create mode 100644 lib/maple_tree.c
> > create mode 100644 tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/maple_tree.h
> > create mode 100644 tools/testing/radix-tree/maple.c
> > create mode 100644 tools/testing/radix-tree/trace/events/maple_tree.h
>
> ...
> > +Allocating Nodes
> > +----------------
> > +
> > +Allocations are usually handled internally to the tree, however if allocations
> > +need to occur before a write occurs then calling mas_entry_count() will
> > +allocate the worst-case number of needed nodes to insert the provided number of
> > +ranges. This also causes the tree to enter mass insertion mode. Once
> > +insertions are complete calling mas_destroy() on the maple state will free the
> > +unused allocations.
>
> mas_entry_count() has been renamed to mas_expected_entries().
> (Note: test code is still using mas_entry_count()).

Thanks, I just discovered the test code issue on my side.