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In the previous patch, we created a very basic quicksort implementation for xfile arrays. While the use of an alternate sorting algorithm to avoid quicksort recursion on very small subsets reduces the runtime modestly, we could do better than a load and store-heavy insertion sort, particularly since each load and store requires a page mapping lookup in the xfile. For a small increase in kernel memory requirements, we could instead bulk load the xfarray records into memory, use the kernel's existing heapsort implementation to sort the records, and bulk store the memory buffer back into the xfile. On the author's computer, this reduces the runtime by about 5% on a 500,000 element array. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.