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rbtree: handle 1-child recoloring in rb_erase() instead of rb_erase_color()
authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 00:23:51 +0000 (10:23 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:18:08 +0000 (16:18 +1000)
commitf483eb718d03a2b52c6577a330f3cdbb19d54685
tree490490c34806252773b2b888d508d5da73bb7129
parent01360e71f6ff292086a2a63eb1d090cda58cb603
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