Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib: use sunday algorithm to do strstr() and strnstr()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:37:15AM +0800, Zhaoxiu Zeng wrote:
> From: Zhaoxiu Zeng <zhaoxiu.zeng@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The Sunday algorithm is a variation of Boyer-Moore algorithm, it is easy and fast.
> For the Sunday algorithm, to see
> 	http://www.inf.fh-flensburg.de/lang/algorithmen/pattern/sundayen.htm

So you say, but what does this really buy us?  Why make this change?
How was it tested?  What is the downside of not taking this?

thanks,

greg k-h