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Message-ID: <20171201235223.GX692@shells.gnugeneration.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:52:23 -0800
From: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@...garu.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: dave@...olabs.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rbtree.txt: fix typo in cached rbtree section
---
Documentation/rbtree.txt | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/rbtree.txt b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
index c42a21b99046..3a4c23bc90b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/rbtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
@@ -197,9 +197,9 @@ Cached rbtrees
--------------
Computing the leftmost (smallest) node is quite a common task for binary
-search trees, such as for traversals or users relying on a the particular
-order for their own logic. To this end, users can use 'struct rb_root_cached'
-to optimize O(logN) rb_first() calls to a simple pointer fetch avoiding
+search trees, such as for traversals or users relying on a particular order
+for their own logic. To this end, users can use 'struct rb_root_cached' to
+optimize O(logN) rb_first() calls to a simple pointer fetch avoiding
potentially expensive tree iterations. This is done at negligible runtime
overhead for maintanence; albeit larger memory footprint.
--
2.11.0
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