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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Wei Yang <weiyang.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: One comment on the __release_region in kernel/resource.c
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 13:15:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVuMHjbDkAdrkfTS-ZaYCwN-avihsQyDsOAVFt+PdWqYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111003192458.14d198a3.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:24, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 21:57:07 +0800
> Wei Yang <weiyang.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear experts,
>>
>> I am viewing the source code of __release_region() in kernel/resource.c.
>> And I have one comment for the performance issue.
>>
>> For example, we have a resource tree like this.
>> 10-89
>>    20-79
>>        30-49
>>        55-59
>>        60-64
>>        65-69
>>    80-89
>> 100-279
>>
>> If the caller wants to release a region of [50,59], the original code will
                                              ^^^^^^^
Do you really mean [50,59]?
I don't think that's allowed, as the tree has [55,59], so you would release a
larger region that allocated.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-02 13:57 Wei Yang
2011-10-03 10:24 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-03 11:15   ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2011-10-03 13:35     ` Wei Yang
2011-10-03 14:03       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-10-03 14:24         ` Wei Yang
2011-10-04 14:17         ` Wei Yang
2011-10-03 13:30   ` Wei Yang

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