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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:01:30 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> To: balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Make yield_task_fair more efficient On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:12 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:01 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > >> I have an alternate approach in mind (that I need to find time for), > >> threaded-rbtrees. Walking the tree is really efficient, specially finding > >> successor of a node. > > > > Threading the rbtrees would be even more expensive, it would require a > > list_head in each node and a full list operation for every tree > > operation. > > > > Peter, when I say threaded, I don't mean threaded as in tasks. Please see > http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/threadedtree.html and > http://datastructures.itgo.com/trees/tbt.htm I'm quite aware of the meaning of threaded in the context of data structures. They usually require additional list data and operations to implement. Look at how the latter link you provided grows the rb_node with one pointer to provide a single linked list. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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