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Now that we have the means to do insertion sorts of small in-memory subsets of an xfarray, use it to improve the quicksort pivot algorithm by reading 7 records into memory and finding the median of that. This should prevent bad partitioning when a[lo] and a[hi] end up next to each other in the final sort, which can happen when sorting for cntbt repair when the free space is extremely fragmented (e.g. generic/176). This doesn't speed up the average quicksort run by much, but it will (hopefully) avoid the quadratic time collapse for which quicksort is famous. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.