Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm v2 01/11] mm: track free size between VMAs in VMA rbtree | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:37:11 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:52 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > The thing you propose, the double search, once for len, and once for len > > +align-1 doesn't guarantee you'll find a hole. All holes of len might be > > mis-aligned but the len+align-1 search might overlook a hole of suitable > > size and alignment, you'd have to search the entire range: [len, len > > +align-1], and that's somewhat silly. > > This may still be good enough.
OK, as long as this is clearly mentioned in a comment near there.
It just annoys me that I cannot come up with anything better :-)
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