Re: [PATCH] lib: test bitmap vs Maple Tree performance for region allocations

On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 04:49:08AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 09:39:09PM -0400, Yury Norov wrote:
> > Compare the cost of allocating and freeing variable-sized regions using
> > a bitmap and a Maple Tree. Both implementations process the same randomly
> > generated sequence of region sizes, ranging from 1 to 32 entries, until
> > the configured capacity is exhausted.
> 
> I'd suggest the IDA might be a better comparison than the maple tree.
> Essentially it's a sparse bitmap which plays some fun tricks to lower
> the cost.
> 
> Eventually, I expect the IDA to be reimplemented on top of the maple
> tree data structure instead of the XArray.

Sure, will send v2