RE: [PATCH V2] tipc: Use bsearch library function

[Jon Maloy]

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> To: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Thomas Meyer
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] tipc: Use bsearch library function
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> On Sun, 2017-09-17 at 16:27 +0000, Jon Maloy wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thomas Meyer [mailto:thomas@xxxxxxxx]
> []
> > > What about the other binary search implementation in the same file?
> > > Should I try to convert it it will it get NAKed for performance reasons too?
> >
> > The searches for inserting and removing publications is less time
> > critical, so that would be ok with me.
> > If you have any more general interest in improving the code in this
> > file (which is needed) it would also be appreciated.
> 
> Perhaps using an rbtree would be an improvement.

Not a bad idea. It would probably reduce the code amount, possibly at the expense of cache hit rate during the binary lookup.
It is worth looking into.

///jon