On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Actually the unbounded delays is not an issue as the lookups are
> usually happening as deferred work, and most of my code is in kernel
> space so I'm not sure if pushing off the hashtable lookup code to
> userspace is a good idea..
>
> Than
Actually the unbounded delays is not an issue as the lookups are
usually happening as deferred work, and most of my code is in kernel
space so I'm not sure if pushing off the hashtable lookup code to
userspace is a good idea..
Thanks for pointing out that mmap wouldn't work in kernel space. But
ou
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> There is a certain hashtable that I am currently implementing in the
> kernel using file handling for sake of persistence. It is actually a
> file-based binary tree (nodes are referred to by file offsets instead
> of memory addresses). The pr
There is a certain hashtable that I am currently implementing in the
kernel using file handling for sake of persistence. It is actually a
file-based binary tree (nodes are referred to by file offsets instead
of memory addresses). The problem is that the tree can get unbalanced
quite quickly and aft
