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Replace the bubble sort in sanitize_e820_map() with a call to the generic
authorMike Ditto <mditto@google.com>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:52:37 +0000 (10:52 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:24:07 +0000 (15:24 +1000)
commita74a0dee9888d7002db8e9e962d32773141790bb
tree71e7ff84274c25d85fa5ab2bb65db47fd1c3b1ac
parent3906e659447ded181b8718eb9601c37349452e40
Replace the bubble sort in sanitize_e820_map() with a call to the generic
kernel sort function to avoid pathological performance with large maps.

On large (thousands of entries) E820 maps, the previous code took minutes
to run; with this change it's now milliseconds.

Signed-off-by: Mike Ditto <mditto@google.com>
Cc: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@kpanic.de>
Cc: Nancy Yuen <yuenn@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c