Re: [PATCH] Make clocksource insert entry more efficiently

From: Minfei Huang
Date: Mon May 02 2016 - 23:33:03 EST


On 05/02/16 at 10:39P, John Stultz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It is unnecessary to continue looping the list, if we find there is an
> > entry that the value of rating is smaller than the new one. It is safe
> > to be out the loop, because all of entry are inserted in descending
> > order.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Thanks for sending this in. It looks reasonable to me, though not
> likely to gain a ton, as these are usually short lists, and we only
> really tinker with them at bootup. But yea. I'll put it on my toqueue
> list for testing.
>
> Its maybe a little close to make it for 4.7, but we'll see.
>
> Thanks again!
> -john

Thanks

Minfei