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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 0/5] rbtree: optimize frequent tree walks
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:20:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200211112015.GA4543@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200210155611.lfrddnolsyzktqne@linux-p48b>

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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-11 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 18:03 [PATCH -next 0/5] rbtree: optimize frequent tree walks Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-07 18:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] lib/rbtree: introduce linked-list rbtree interface Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-10 20:07   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-10 21:28     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-10 21:44       ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-07 18:03 ` [PATCH 2/5] proc/sysctl: optimize proc_sys_readdir Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-10 20:08   ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-07 18:03 ` [PATCH 3/5] regmap: optimize sync() and drop() regcache callbacks Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-10 13:11   ` Mark Brown
2020-02-07 18:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] vfio/type1: optimize dma_list tree iterations Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-07 18:03 ` [PATCH 5/5] uprobes: optimize build_probe_list() Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-10  1:46 ` [PATCH -next 0/5] rbtree: optimize frequent tree walks Andrew Morton
2020-02-10 15:56   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-10 22:35     ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-13 15:50       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-11 11:20     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2020-02-13 15:55       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2020-02-13 16:56         ` Mark Brown

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