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rbtree: handle 1-child recoloring in rb_erase() instead of rb_erase_color()
authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:57:38 +0000 (10:57 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:58:49 +0000 (15:58 +1000)
commitc5b6bcb4fbb6146163c9881187cb6a6e10ceec0f
tree5f869bde6ccee76693716689d351d180bc713396
parent8cd060918cd0689fd93cefc2e49b3a29b129cd2f
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