linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] make RB_DECLARE

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Message-ID: <20190703072244.GG3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 3 Jul 2019 09:22:44 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Cc:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] make RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS more generic

On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 09:01:53PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> These changes are intended to make the RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS macro
> more generic (allowing the aubmented subtree information to be a struct
> instead of a scalar).
> 
> Changes since v2: Left the RBSTATIC and RBNAME arguments first in the
> RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS and RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX macros as suggested
> by Peter Zijlstra.
> 
> Changes since v1: I have added a new RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX macro,
> which generates augmented rbtree callbacks where the subtree information
> can be expressed as max(f(node)). This covers all current uses, and thus
> makes it easy to do the later RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS definition change
> as it's only currently used in RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX.
> 
> I have also verified the compiled lib/interval_tree.o and mm/mmap.o
> files to check that they didn't change. This held as expected for
> interval_tree.o; mmap.o did have some changes which could be reverted
> by marking __vma_link_rb as noinline. I did not add such a change to the
> patchset; I felt it was reasonable enough to let the inlining decision
> up to the compiler.
> 
> Michel Lespinasse (3):
>   augmented rbtree: add comments for RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS macro
>   augmented rbtree: add new RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX macro
>   augmented rbtree: rework the RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS macro definition

Thanks Michel, looking good now!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>