Re: [PATCH 2/2] radix-tree: Fix optimisation problem

From: Cedric Blancher
Date: Sun Sep 25 2016 - 15:41:08 EST


LGTM, except that #define is_sibling_entry should be IS_SIBLING_ENTRY

Ced

On 25 September 2016 at 21:04, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The more I look at that particular piece of code, the less I like it. It's
>> buggy shit. It needs to be rewritten entirely too actually check for sibling
>> entries, not that ad-hoc arithmetic crap.
>
> Here's my attempt at cleaning the mess up.
>
> I'm not claiming it's perfect, but I think it's better. It gets rid of
> the ad-hoc arithmetic in radix_tree_descend(), and just makes all that
> be inside the is_sibling_entry() logic instead. Which got renamed and
> made to actually return the main sibling. So now there is at least
> only *one* piece of code that does that range comparison, and I don't
> think there is any huge need to explain what's going on, because the
> "magic" is unconditional.
>
> Willy?
>
> Linus



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