linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/5] lib/sort & lib/list

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Message-ID: <fb5ef3c2-2346-bbe8-351c-67f6b8735f19@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:56:39 +0100
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     George Spelvin <lkml@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrey Abramov <st5pub@...dex.ru>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...mens.com>,
        Don Mullis <don.mullis@...il.com>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/5] lib/sort & lib/list_sort: faster and
 smaller

On 19/03/2019 09.15, George Spelvin wrote:
> 
> Because CONFIG_RETPOLINE has made indirect calls much more expensive,
> I thought I'd try to reduce the number made by the library sort
> functions.

For the series,

Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>

and let's have more commits with such detailed changelogs and references
to academic work combined with "but in the real world we have to do this
and that tradeoff..." :)