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From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
To: Vishal Patil <vishpat@gmail.com>
Cc: Gary Funck <gary@intrepid.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generic B-tree implementation
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:33:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1153294394.13071.3.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4745278c0607180822u55ffe5b4g333e2e6457b37d02@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:22 -0400, Vishal Patil wrote:
> B-trees are good for parellel updates as well. Anyway it would be
> great to have inputs from other folks about how B-trees could help
> inside the kernel (if at all)

B-trees are mostly used in file systems in the kernel.  For example NTFS
and HFS (and I think HPFS) use B-trees for various metadata like
directory indexes for example.

But of course your implementation is purely userspace and cannot be used
in the kernel (you use recursion for example...) so I am not sure how
you envisage to help the kernel with your code...

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-19  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-18  2:02 Vishal Patil
2006-07-18  2:58 ` Horst von Brand
2006-07-18  3:08   ` Vishal Patil
2006-07-18  3:20     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-18  4:27 ` Gary Funck
2006-07-18 13:30   ` Vishal Patil
2006-07-18 15:00     ` Gary Funck
2006-07-18 15:13       ` Bob Copeland
2006-07-18 15:22       ` Vishal Patil
2006-07-19  7:33         ` Anton Altaparmakov [this message]
2006-07-19 13:34           ` Vishal Patil
2006-07-19 16:14             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-07-19 16:26               ` Vishal Patil
2006-08-07  2:18                 ` Vishal Patil

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