Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:20:15 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -next 0/5] rbtree: optimize frequent tree walks |
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 07:56:11AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Sun, 09 Feb 2020, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > And... are these patches really worth merging? Complexity is added, > > but what end-user benefit can we expect?
> Yes they are worth merging, imo (which of course is biased :)
> I don't think there is too much added complexity overall, particularly > considering that the user conversions are rather trivial. And even for > small trees (ie 100 nodes) we still benefit in a measurable way from > these optimizations.
As I said in reply to the regmap patch I'm really unconvinced that any benefit will outweigh the increased memory costs for that usage. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |