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From: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@colin2.muc.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	jh@suse.cz, Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add noinline attribute
Date: 16 Jan 2004 01:26:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u12wn3h9.fsf@p4.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401151448200.2597@evo.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Wed, 15 Jan 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > That's fine for me. In fact I did this some time ago on x86-64 when I 
> > ran into similar problems. Here's a port of the x86-64 sort function.
> 
> Ugh. Can't we just make this be generic code (and that means calling it in
> the module loading code too..)?
> 
> As to bubble sort (which is fine for something that is 99% sorted anyway),
> isn't it better to continue pushing the entry down when you find something 
> out of order? That way you don't have to repeat the whole scan, you just 
> continue with the next entry once the unsorted entry has percolated to its 
> place (ie keep entries "0..n-1" sorted at all times). That should make the 
> code cleaner too.

Yes, that algorithm is called insertion sort and is already
implemented in the ppc arch.

-- 
Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14  8:31 Andi Kleen
2004-01-14 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-15  7:48   ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-15 22:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-16  0:26       ` Peter Osterlund [this message]
2004-01-16 10:13       ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-18 20:47         ` Richard Henderson
2004-01-18 20:58           ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-19  0:41             ` Richard Henderson
2004-01-18 23:07           ` [PATCH] Add noinline attribute - new extable sort patch Andi Kleen
2004-01-19  0:52             ` Richard Henderson
2004-01-19  1:01               ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-19 11:26                 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-15  0:35 ` [PATCH] Add noinline attribute Rusty Russell

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