From: Daniel Santos <danielfsantos@att.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Generic Red-Black Trees (status update)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 17:48:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC00C50.3000907@att.net> (raw)
For anybody that's keeping up with this, I've gone through multiple
iterations and tests with 9 different gcc versions and concluded that
the search, insert & remove cores need to be coded in rbtree.h, using
the traditional interface (i.e., passing struct rb_node & rb_root
pointers instead of pointers to your specific object types). The reason
is that gcc can't handle the cool fully-generic code until 4.6. In gcc
4.5.x, optimization completely breaks expanding the inline functions
into huge bloated monsters. Also, while I'm re-coding it all, I'm
adding find_near & insert_near, for more efficient insertion & retrieval
when you already have a node that should be close to the one you want
(which is often the case when inserting many objects at once).
So after I'm done with this, I'll start on a new header file (grbtree.h
probably) using the "grb_" prefix for it's functions that implements the
gcc 4.6.x+ fully generic & type safe interface, but using cute
pre-processor tricks for pre-4.6.x compatibility (basically, something
to consider using once gcc 4.6+ is more widely used).
Daniel
next reply other threads:[~2012-05-25 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 22:48 Daniel Santos [this message]
2012-05-25 23:02 ` Generic Red-Black Trees (status update) Andi Kleen
2012-05-26 1:12 ` Daniel Santos
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