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Message-ID: <20190628165642.r754xozttawmg5yh@linux-r8p5>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:56:42 -0700
From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rbtree: avoid generating code twice for the cached
versions
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>As was already noted in rbtree.h, the logic to cache rb_first (or rb_last)
>can easily be implemented externally to the core rbtree api.
>
>Change the implementation to do just that. Previously the update of
>rb_leftmost was wired deeper into the implemntation, but there were
>some disadvantages to that - mostly, lib/rbtree.c had separate
>instantiations for rb_insert_color() vs rb_insert_color_cached(), as well
>as rb_erase() vs rb_erase_cached(), which were doing exactly the same
>thing save for the rb_leftmost update at the start of either function.
I think this makes sense, and is more along the lines of the augmented
cached doing the static inline instead of separate instantiations of the
calls.
>Change-Id: I0cb62be774fc0138b81188e6ae81d5f1da64578d
what is this?
>Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Thanks!
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