linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and optimizations

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:47:45 +0800
From: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@...il.com>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions
 and optimizations

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 04:33:37PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 12:01:50PM +0800, Kuan-Wei Chiu wrote:
> > Add non-inline versions of the min heap API functions in lib/min_heap.c
> > and updates all users outside of kernel/events/core.c to use these
> > non-inline versions. To mitigate the performance impact of indirect
> > function calls caused by the non-inline versions of the swap and
> > compare functions, a builtin swap has been introduced that swaps
> > elements based on their size. Additionally, it micro-optimizes the
> > efficiency of the min heap by pre-scaling the counter, following the
> > same approach as in lib/sort.c. Documentation for the min heap API has
> > also been added to the core-api section.
> 
> What tree (and commit) this series is based on?
> 
> Confused...
> 
This patchset is based on Linus' tree, commit 715ca9dd687f ("Merge tag
'io_uring-6.12-20241019' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux"). Since it
touches multiple subsystems, I'm not entirely sure which tree I should
base it on. Should it be linux-next, perhaps?

Regards,
Kuan-Wei