On Fri, 03 May 2019 16:03:46 -0500, Probir Roy said: > While searching for next slot in a hole, it walks through the same > slots over n over.
How did you determine this?
> while (++offset < RADIX_TREE_MAP_SIZE) {
> void *slot = rcu_dereference_raw( /* redundant slot
> walk */
> node->slots[offset]);
> if (slot)
> break;
> }
Looks to me like the ++offset will walk through each potential slot once,
and break out if it finds one.
I haven't looked at the code closely, perhaps what you're seeing is repeated
scan/merge/rescan behavior? Often, compacting a data structure requires
multiple passes.
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