Re: [PATCH] Make clocksource insert entry more efficiently

From: John Stultz
Date: Mon May 02 2016 - 13:40:01 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is unnecessary to continue looping the list, if we find there is an
> entry that the value of rating is smaller than the new one. It is safe
> to be out the loop, because all of entry are inserted in descending
> order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks for sending this in. It looks reasonable to me, though not
likely to gain a ton, as these are usually short lists, and we only
really tinker with them at bootup. But yea. I'll put it on my toqueue
list for testing.

Its maybe a little close to make it for 4.7, but we'll see.

Thanks again!
-john