linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] sort: Add obj_sort() for sorting all kinds of random-accessible objects

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:56:04 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] sort: Add obj_sort() for sorting all kinds of
	random-accessible objects


On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 19:55 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> current sort can only sort objects on continuous memory,
> but sometimes we need to sort objects on noncontinuous memory,
> this patch provide obj_sort() for this.
> 
> Sometimes a C struct(the container of objects, or objects) may be designed
> with some high-level language's semantic meaning. obj_sort() can sort
> for them.
>
> obj_sort() is need for sort pids for cgroup.tasks file.

Ok, if I understand this correctly, your new function basically changes:

cmp(void *a, void *b)            to cmp(void *obj, int a, int b)
swap(void *a, void *b, int size) to swap(void *obj, int a, int b)

Since neither function actually looks at the data directly, it seems we
could make a unified sort function with:

cmp(void *base, int a, int b)
swap(void *base, int a, int b, int size)

What is the underlying data structure you're sorting by the way? Years
ago, I wrote a very nice merge sort for linked lists that I never got
around to submitting. 

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

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