Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update augmented rbtree documentation

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 12:45:21 EST



* Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:56:42 +0300 Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> > Current documentation referred to the old method
> > of handling augmented trees. Update documentation
> > to correspond with the changes done in commit
> > b945d6b2554d550fe95caadc61e521c0ad71fb9c.
> >
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/rbtree.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
> > 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/rbtree.txt b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
> > index 19f8278..b847598 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/rbtree.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
> > @@ -196,15 +196,20 @@ Support for Augmented rbtrees
> > Augmented rbtree is an rbtree with "some" additional data stored in each node.
> > This data can be used to augment some new functionality to rbtree.
> > Augmented rbtree is an optional feature built on top of basic rbtree
> > -infrastructure. rbtree user who wants this feature will have an augment
> > -callback function in rb_root initialized.
> > -
> > -This callback function will be called from rbtree core routines whenever
> > -a node has a change in one or both of its children. It is the responsibility
> > -of the callback function to recalculate the additional data that is in the
> > -rb node using new children information. Note that if this new additional
> > -data affects the parent node's additional data, then callback function has
> > -to handle it and do the recursive updates.
> > +infrastructure. rbtree user who wants this feature will have to call the
> > +augmentation functions with the user provided augmentation callback
> > +when inserting and erasing nodes.
> > +
> > +On insertion, The user must call rb_augment_insert() once the new node is in
>
> the user
>
> > +place. This will cause the augmentation function callback to be called for
> > +each node between the new node and the root which have been affected by the
>
> which has been
>
> > +insertion.
> > +
> > +When erasing a node, The user must call rb_augment_erase_begin() first to
>
> the user
>
> > +retrieve the deepest node on the rebalance path. Then, After erasing the
>
> after
>
> > +original node, the user must call rb_augment_erase_end() with the deepest
> > +node found earlier. This will cause the augmentation function to be called
> > +for each affected node between the deepest node and the root.

Heh, you really rock at reviewing documentation!

I went through the text and could have sworn that beyond the small detail i
pointed out it's otherwise perfect ;-)

Thanks,

Ingo
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