>>> On 21.11.17 at 16:19, <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
> 
> It is a well known property of rbtrees that insertion never requires more
> than two tree rotations.  In our implementation, after one loop iteration
> identified one or two necessary tree rotations, we would iterate and look
> for more.  However at that point the node's parent would always be black,
> which would cause us to exit the loop.
> 
> We can make the code flow more obvious by just adding a break statement
> after the tree rotations, where we know we are done.  Additionally, in the
> cases where two tree rotations are necessary, we don't have to update the
> 'node' pointer as it wouldn't be used until the next loop iteration, which
> we now avoid due to this break statement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Santos <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> [Linux commit 1f0528653e41ec230c60f5738820e8a544731399]
> 
> Ported to Xen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>



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