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Re: [PATCH 1/5] rbtree: Cache leftmost node internally

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On Thu, 08 Jun 2017, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 07:09:36PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>
>>  static __always_inline struct rb_node *
>>  __rb_erase_augmented(struct rb_node *node, struct rb_root *root,
>> +		     bool cached, struct rb_node **leftmost,
>>  		     const struct rb_augment_callbacks *augment)
>>  {
>>  	struct rb_node *child = node->rb_right;
>> @@ -157,6 +169,9 @@ __rb_erase_augmented(struct rb_node *node, struct rb_root *root,
>>  	struct rb_node *parent, *rebalance;
>>  	unsigned long pc;
>>
>> +	if (cached && node == *leftmost)
>> +		*leftmost = rb_next(node);
>> +
>>  	if (!tmp) {
>>  		/*
>>  		 * Case 1: node to erase has no more than 1 child (easy!)
>
>Why do we have @cached ? Wouldn't simply testing @leftmost for NULL not
>do the same?

I added that so that we can differentiate between regular rbtrees and the
cached flavor. However, you are right, we can avoid that arg considering
that the tree is never empty (this is an erase call), thus if leftmost
is nil, it was never cached in the first place.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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Re: [PATCH 1/5] rbtree: Cache leftmost node internally Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-06-08 15:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/5] rbtree: Cache leftmost node internally Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2017-06-08 17:40 +0200

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