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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2] tipc: Use bsearch library function
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On Sat, 2017-09-16 at 18:10 +0800, Ying Xue wrote:
> On 09/16/2017 05:58 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-09-16 at 17:36 +0800, Ying Xue wrote:
> > > On 09/16/2017 05:26 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2017-09-16 at 17:02 +0800, Ying Xue wrote:
> > > > > On 09/16/2017 03:50 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> > > > > > Use common library function rather than explicitly coding
> > > > > > some variant of it yourself.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
> > > > >
> > > > > Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
> > > >
> > > > Are you sure you want to do this?
> > > >
> > > > Note the comment above nameseq_find_subseq
> > > >
> > > > * Very time-critical, so binary searches through sub-sequence array.
> > > >
> > > > What impact does this change have on performance?
> > >
> > > Sorry, I couldn't see any essential difference between this new
> > > implementation and the original one except that the former tries to use
> > > the library function - bsearch() to replace the original binary search
> > > algorithm implemented in TIPC itself. Therefore, I don't think the
> > > change will have a big impact on performance.
> > >
> > > If I miss something, please let me know.
> >
> > Comparison via a function pointer in bsearch is slower
> > than direct code without the function call overhead.
> >
>
> Right, but probably we can tolerate the slight sacrifice here.

What part of "very time critical" have you verified
and benchmarked as inconsequential?

Please post your results.

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