Re: [RFC] resource: Avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()

[David Hildenbrand]

On 11.10.24 12:49, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 09:06:37AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> > David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > On 10.10.24 08:55, Huang Ying wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > 	for ((_p) = (_root)->child; (_p); (_p) = next_resource_XXX(_root, _p))
> >
> > Yes.  This can improve code readability.
> >
> > A possible issue is that "_root" will be evaluated twice in above macro
> > definition.  IMO, this should be avoided.
>
> Ideally, yes. But how many for_each type of macros you see that really try hard
> to achieve that? I believe we shouldn't worry right now about this and rely on
> the fact that root is the given variable. Or do you have an example of what you
> suggested in the other reply, i.e. where it's an evaluation of the heavy call?
>
> > Do you have some idea about
> > how to do that?  Something like below?
> >
> > #define for_each_resource_XXX(_root, _p)                                \
> > 	for (typeof(_root) __root = (_root), __p = (_p) = (__root)->child; \
> > 	     __p && (_p); (_p) = next_resource_XXX(__root, _p))
>
> This is a bit ugly :-( I would avoid ugliness as long as we have no problem to
> solve (see above).

Fully agreed, I didn't quite understand the concern about "evaluation" 
at first. If it's just reading a variable twice, it doesn't matter at 
all right now.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb