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Kernel: [WIP] Use a tree for VMSpace instead of a linked list #57

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New PR since I accidentally screwed up the last one by setting its branch to gh-pages somehow...

This updates VMSpace to use a tree structure to store regions instead of a linked list, which simplifies things and (theoretically) speeds them up as well.

In practice, however, this seems to make things considerably slower. I'm not 100% sure why this is. The first thing that comes to mind is that traversing the map while forking is slower than traversing a linked list. But, usually, the maps are pretty small and forking happens pretty infrequently, so that's most likely not the culprit. I'll have to do some benchmarking to compare allocation and lookup times, probably.

This updates VMSpace to use a tree structure to store regions instead of a linked list, which simplifies things and (theoretically) speeds them up as well.

In practice, however, this seems to make things *slower* when compiling without optimizations - probably because the VMSpace trees are incredibly unbalanced due to the fact that new regions are pretty much being inserted sequentially.

Theoretically, once kstd::map is self-balancing, it should speed things up quite a bit. Then, I'll merge this into the main branch.
@byteduck byteduck self-assigned this Mar 11, 2023
@byteduck byteduck added the kernel The issue is about the kernel label Mar 11, 2023
@byteduck byteduck force-pushed the master branch 5 times, most recently from 1e13d14 to 6f9f442 Compare September 9, 2024 06:49
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