From: minskey <chaohong_guo@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: binary search in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx()
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:26:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270697176.21760.27.camel@minskey-desktop> (raw)
in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx() routine, there is the following code:
while (l <= r) {
m = l + (r - l) / 2;
if (block < le32_to_cpu(m->ei_block))
r = m - 1;
else
l = m + 1;
}
path->p_idx = l - 1;
The code always runs logN iterations to get the expected extent,
if 3-way comparison is used, we can save some iterations when
(block == le32_to_cpu(m->ei_block)) at the first iteration.
some other routines, such as ext4_ext_binsearch() etc, use the
same algorithm (2-way comparison), Is there any special goal ?
thanks,
-minskey
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