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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] staging: greybus: loopback.c: do insertion in O(n) instead of O(n lg n)
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On 23/10/2018 17:20, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 2018-10-11 01:03, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>> On 05/10/2018 15:28, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes<linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
>>> ---
>>> I have no idea if the performance matters (it probably doesn't). Feel
>>> free to ignore this and the followup cleanup.
>>
>> What's the problem you're fixing here ?
>>
>> Is it tested ?
>
> I got curious why one would want to keep a linked list sorted in the
> first place (it can't be for doing binary searches). But it seems that
> gb_loopback_device::list is unused, along with the list_op_async. Given
> that the below compiles, doesn't that prove that the code is
> dead/unused, or what am I missing?
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
> b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
> index 7080294f705c..e4d42c1dc284 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
> @@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ struct gb_loopback_device {
>
> /* We need to take a lock in atomic context */
> spinlock_t lock;
> - struct list_head list;
> - struct list_head list_op_async;
> wait_queue_head_t wq;
> };
>
> @@ -68,7 +66,6 @@ struct gb_loopback {
> struct kfifo kfifo_lat;
> struct mutex mutex;
> struct task_struct *task;
> - struct list_head entry;
> struct device *dev;
> wait_queue_head_t wq;
> wait_queue_head_t wq_completion;
> @@ -987,37 +984,6 @@ static const struct file_operations
> gb_loopback_debugfs_latency_ops = {
> .release = single_release,
> };
>
> -static int gb_loopback_bus_id_compare(void *priv, struct list_head *lha,
> - struct list_head *lhb)
> -{
> - struct gb_loopback *a = list_entry(lha, struct gb_loopback, entry);
> - struct gb_loopback *b = list_entry(lhb, struct gb_loopback, entry);
> - struct gb_connection *ca = a->connection;
> - struct gb_connection *cb = b->connection;
> -
> - if (ca->bundle->intf->interface_id < cb->bundle->intf->interface_id)
> - return -1;
> - if (cb->bundle->intf->interface_id < ca->bundle->intf->interface_id)
> - return 1;
> - if (ca->bundle->id < cb->bundle->id)
> - return -1;
> - if (cb->bundle->id < ca->bundle->id)
> - return 1;
> - if (ca->intf_cport_id < cb->intf_cport_id)
> - return -1;
> - else if (cb->intf_cport_id < ca->intf_cport_id)
> - return 1;
> -
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static void gb_loopback_insert_id(struct gb_loopback *gb)
> -{
> - /* perform an insertion sort */
> - list_add_tail(&gb->entry, &gb_dev.list);
> - list_sort(NULL, &gb_dev.list, gb_loopback_bus_id_compare);
> -}
> -
> #define DEBUGFS_NAMELEN 32
>
> static int gb_loopback_probe(struct gb_bundle *bundle,
> @@ -1113,7 +1079,6 @@ static int gb_loopback_probe(struct gb_bundle *bundle,
> }
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&gb_dev.lock, flags);
> - gb_loopback_insert_id(gb);
> gb_dev.count++;
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gb_dev.lock, flags);
>
> @@ -1169,7 +1134,6 @@ static void gb_loopback_disconnect(struct
> gb_bundle *bundle)
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&gb_dev.lock, flags);
> gb_dev.count--;
> - list_del(&gb->entry);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gb_dev.lock, flags);
>
> device_unregister(gb->dev);
> @@ -1196,8 +1160,6 @@ static int loopback_init(void)
> {
> int retval;
>
> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&gb_dev.list);
> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&gb_dev.list_op_async);
> spin_lock_init(&gb_dev.lock);
> gb_dev.root = debugfs_create_dir("gb_loopback", NULL);
>

Looks like dead code alright.

Reviewed-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>

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