> Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> > > If somebody find this interesting I can provide a patch to add the
> > > include/linux/rbtree.h and lib/rbtree.c that will provde rbtree support.
> >
> > I'd like to take a look at this, I've been looking at putting some more
> > uniform tree structures in the kernel (post 2.4).
>
> fwiw, I did a splay tree (aka. self-adjusting tree) for similar reasons
> that anyone is welcome to take a peek at. The self-adjusting property
> should theoretically provide cache-like behaviour when most of the
> lookups are to relatively few nodes in the tree. The downside is that
> the tree is modified by lookups.
Unfortunately, that means that there's no way it can even begin to scale
on SMP - all "readers" need exclusive locks unless you can somehow
guarantee that there'll only ever be one reader/writer. In some instances,
it might make sense to have completely unlocked per-processor trees
mapping onto shared structures, but it seems a little painful.
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