Re: [PATCH] regmap: rbtree: When adding a reg do a bsearch for target node

[Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 02:16:14PM +0100, Nikesh Oswal wrote:
> From: Nikesh Oswal <Nikesh.Oswal@wolfsonmicro.com>

If you are going to use your non-opensource email, might as well
use the cirrus one here.

> 
> A binary search is much more efficient rather than iterating
> over the rbtree in ascending order which the current code is
> doing.
> 
> During initialisation the reg defaults are written to the
> cache in a large chunk and these are always sorted in the
> ascending order so for this situation ideally we should have
> iterated the rbtree in descending order.
> 
> But at runtime the drivers may write into the cache in any
> random order so this patch selects to use a bsearch to give
> an optimal runtime performance and also at initialisation
> time when reg defaults are written the performance of binary
> search would be much better than iterating in ascending order
> which the current code was doing.
>   
> Signed-off-by: Nikesh Oswal <Nikesh.Oswal@wolfsonmicro.com>
> ---

Patch looks fine to me though:

Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Thanks,
Charles