Re: [PATCH 1/3] percpu: stop the loop when a cpu belongs to a new group

[Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:30:08AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:58:11PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>> When a cpu belongs to a new group, there is no cpu has the same group id. This
>> means it can be assigned a new group id without checking with every others.
>> 
>> This patch does this optimiztion.
>
>Does this actually matter?  If so, it'd probably make a lot more sense
>to start inner loop at @cpu + 1 so that it becomes O(N).

One of the worst case in my mind:

CPU:        0    1    2    3    4    ...
Group:      0    1    2    3    4    ...
(sounds it is impossible in the real world)

Every time, when we encounter a new CPU and try to assign it to a group, we
found it belongs to a new group. The original logic will iterate on all old
CPUs again, while the new logic could skip this and assign it to a new group.

Again, this is a tiny change, which doesn't matters a lot.

BTW, I don't get your point for "start inner loop at @cpu+1".

The original logic is:
	loop 1:   0 - nr_cpus
	loop 2:      0 - (cpu - 1)

If you found one better approach to improve the logic, I believe all the users
will appreciate your efforts :-)

Thanks for your review and comments again ~

>
>Thanks.
>
>-- 
>tejun

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