Re: [RFC v1 05/14] bus1: util - pool utility library

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Oct 27 2016 - 11:00:53 EST


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:18:01PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> > +/* insert slice into the free tree */
> > +static void bus1_pool_slice_link_free(struct bus1_pool_slice *slice,
> > + struct bus1_pool *pool)
> > +{
> > + struct rb_node **n, *prev = NULL;
> > + struct bus1_pool_slice *ps;
> > +
> > + n = &pool->slices_free.rb_node;
> > + while (*n) {
> > + prev = *n;
> > + ps = container_of(prev, struct bus1_pool_slice, rb);
> > + if (slice->size < ps->size)
> > + n = &prev->rb_left;
> > + else
> > + n = &prev->rb_right;
> > + }
> > +
> > + rb_link_node(&slice->rb, prev, n);
> > + rb_insert_color(&slice->rb, &pool->slices_free);
> > +}
>
> If you only sort free slices by size, how do you merge contiguous free
> slices?

Ah, I see, you also keep an ordered list of slices and use that one
function up from here.