From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@redhat.com,
dedekind@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: more scalable list_sort()
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:59:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100124205906.GC29555@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100123160537.GG25842@discord.disaster>
> Similarly, adding cond_resched() to list_sort means you can stop
> worrying about the scheduling latency impact of sorting long lists.
> I fail to see why you're making such a big deal out of this.....
It's not easy to add it to a low level library function like list_sort()
because you would need to ensure that all callers are allowed to sleep.
Or even if all callers currently allow it future ones might not.
So it would need a new flag or so if needed, completely changing
the interface.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-24 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 4:51 Don Mullis
2010-01-21 5:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] lib: revise list_sort() comment Don Mullis
2010-01-21 19:11 ` Olaf Titz
2010-01-22 4:54 ` Don Mullis
2010-01-21 9:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib: more scalable list_sort() Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-21 9:54 ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-21 11:44 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-21 16:34 ` Don Mullis
2010-01-21 17:59 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-22 3:17 ` Don Mullis
2010-01-22 10:43 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-22 12:29 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-22 17:55 ` Don Mullis
2010-01-23 8:28 ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-23 11:35 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-23 16:05 ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-24 20:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-01-24 21:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-01-24 22:38 ` Don Mullis
2010-01-25 3:41 ` Dave Chinner
2010-08-04 14:04 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-08-07 7:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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