On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 05:31 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote: >> +static void augment_rotate(struct rb_node *rb_old, struct rb_node *rb_new) >> +{ >> + struct test_node *old = rb_entry(rb_old, struct test_node, rb); >> + struct test_node *new = rb_entry(rb_new, struct test_node, rb); >> + >> + /* Rotation doesn't change subtree's augmented value */ >> + new->augmented = old->augmented; >> + old->augmented = augment_recompute(old); >> +} > >> +static inline void augment_propagate(struct rb_node *rb) >> +{ >> + while (rb) { >> + struct test_node *node = rb_entry(rb, struct test_node, rb); >> + node->augmented = augment_recompute(node); >> + rb = rb_parent(&node->rb); >> + } >> +} > > So why do we have to introduce these two new function pointers to pass > along when they can both be trivially expressed in the old single > augment function?
Its because augment_rotate() needs to be a static function that we can take the address of and pass along as a callback to the tree rebalancing functions, while augment_propagate() needs to be an inline function that gets compiled within an __rb_erase() variant for a given type of augmented rbtree. -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/