Re: [PATCH] rbtree: undo augmented damage -v2

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 19:19 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:00 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> > I am not seeing how this can cover all the callbacks we will need to
> > maintain the augmented tree property. May be I am missing something.
> 
> Yes, indeed, how about the below delta, which my eevdf code did do but I
> overlooked on the conversion to the PAT code.
> 
> That removes the break as you said, but also adds code to update the
> child nodes when walking up the path.
> 
> So in your rotation case:
> 
>     G             P
>    / \    -->    / \
>   P   U         N   G
>  /        <--        \
> N                     U
> 
> Say we take the right rotation, then the traversal up from N to P will
> find that since N was the left child of P and it has a right child (G)
> it will also update G.

Hmm, that looks like it could well be folded in to the generic code..
let me spin a new patch.
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