Re: [PATCH v6 03/17] media: v4l2: async: Add v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev

[Steve Longerbeam]

Hi Jacopo,


On 08/03/2018 08:13 AM, jacopo mondi wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>     I've a small remark, which is probably not only related to your
>     patches but was there alreay... Anyway, please read below..
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:39:03PM -0700, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > <snip>
> > +static int __v4l2_async_notifier_register(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier)
> > +{
> >   	struct v4l2_async_subdev *asd;
> >   	int ret;
> >   	int i;
> > @@ -399,29 +445,25 @@ static int __v4l2_async_notifier_register(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier)
> >
> >   	mutex_lock(&list_lock);
> >
> > -	for (i = 0; i < notifier->num_subdevs; i++) {
> > -		asd = notifier->subdevs[i];
> > +	if (notifier->subdevs) {
> > +		for (i = 0; i < notifier->num_subdevs; i++) {
> > +			asd = notifier->subdevs[i];
> >
> > -		switch (asd->match_type) {
> > -		case V4L2_ASYNC_MATCH_CUSTOM:
> > -		case V4L2_ASYNC_MATCH_DEVNAME:
> > -		case V4L2_ASYNC_MATCH_I2C:
> > -		case V4L2_ASYNC_MATCH_FWNODE:
> > -			if (v4l2_async_notifier_has_async_subdev(
> > -				    notifier, asd, i)) {
> > -				dev_err(dev,
> > -					"asd has already been registered or in notifier's subdev list\n");
> > -				ret = -EEXIST;
> > +			ret = v4l2_async_notifier_asd_valid(notifier, asd, i);
> > +			if (ret)
> >   				goto err_unlock;
> > -			}
> > -			break;
> > -		default:
> > -			dev_err(dev, "Invalid match type %u on %p\n",
> > -				asd->match_type, asd);
> > -			ret = -EINVAL;
> > -			goto err_unlock;
> > +
> > +			list_add_tail(&asd->list, &notifier->waiting);
> > +		}
> > +	} else {
> > +		i = 0;
> > +		list_for_each_entry(asd, &notifier->asd_list, asd_list) {
> > +			ret = v4l2_async_notifier_asd_valid(notifier, asd, i++);
> Here the call stack looks like this, if I'm not mistaken:
>
> list_for_each_entry(asd, notifier->asd_list, i) {
>          v4l2_async_notifier_asd_valid(notifier, asd, i):
>                  v4l2_async_notifier_has_async_subdev(notifier, asd, i):
>                          list_for_each_entry(asd_y, notifier->asd_list, j) {
>                                  if (j >= i) break;
>                                  if (asd == asd_y) return true;
>                          }
> }
>
> Which is an optimization of O(n^2), but still bad.
>
> This was there already there, it was:

Agreed, it should be safe to remove the check for duplicate
asd's at notifier registration, since this check is done now
in v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev().

Steve

> for (i = 0; i < notifier->num_subdevs; i++) {
>          v4l2_async_notifier_has_async_subdev(notifier, notifier->subdevs[i], i):
>                  for (j = 0; j < i; j++) {
>                          if (notifier->subdevs[i] == notifier->subdevs[j])
>                                  return true;
>                          }
>                  }
> }
>
> We're not talking high performances here, but I see no reason to go through
> the list twice, as after switching to use your here introduced
> v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev() async subdevices are tested at endpoint
> parsing time in v4l2_async_notifier_fwnode_parse_endpoint(), which
> guarantees we can't have doubles later, at notifier registration time.
>
> If I'm not wrong, this can be anyway optimized later.
>
> Thanks
>     j