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rbtree: handle 1-child recoloring in rb_erase() instead of rb_erase_color()
authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:30 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 03:12:25 +0000 (14:12 +1100)
commitb89b1d7967b05ac625b43560fa7a65bbdd924694
tree81c8df37fb4eaecf392ad3cad1e1ab32ea926831
parent2326d75b2105a1069ca0e0ed56df979139ffbc74
rbtree: handle 1-child recoloring in rb_erase() instead of rb_erase_color()

An interesting observation for rb_erase() is that when a node has
exactly one child, the node must be black and the child must be red.
An interesting consequence is that removing such a node can be done by
simply replacing it with its child and making the child black,
which we can do efficiently in rb_erase(). __rb_erase_color() then
only needs to handle the no-childs case and can be modified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
lib/rbtree.c