linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next 0/5] rbtree: optimize frequent tree walks

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Date:   Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:20:15 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mcgrof@...nel.org,
        alex.williamson@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 0/5] rbtree: optimize frequent tree walks

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 07:56:11AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Feb 2020, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > And...  are these patches really worth merging?  Complexity is added,
> > but what end-user benefit can we expect?

> Yes they are worth merging, imo (which of course is biased :)

> I don't think there is too much added complexity overall, particularly
> considering that the user conversions are rather trivial. And even for
> small trees (ie 100 nodes) we still benefit in a measurable way from
> these optimizations.

As I said in reply to the regmap patch I'm really unconvinced that any
benefit will outweigh the increased memory costs for that usage.

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