Re: [PATCH 4/6] rbtree: faster augmented insert

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jul 27 2012 - 16:04:28 EST


On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 05:31 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> +static void augment_rotate(struct rb_node *rb_old, struct rb_node *rb_new)
> +{
> + struct test_node *old = rb_entry(rb_old, struct test_node, rb);
> + struct test_node *new = rb_entry(rb_new, struct test_node, rb);
> +
> + /* Rotation doesn't change subtree's augmented value */
> + new->augmented = old->augmented;
> + old->augmented = augment_recompute(old);
> +}

> +static inline void augment_propagate(struct rb_node *rb)
> +{
> + while (rb) {
> + struct test_node *node = rb_entry(rb, struct test_node, rb);
> + node->augmented = augment_recompute(node);
> + rb = rb_parent(&node->rb);
> + }
> +}

So why do we have to introduce these two new function pointers to pass
along when they can both be trivially expressed in the old single
augment function?


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