rbtree: cache leftmost node internally

Patch series "rbtree: Cache leftmost node internally", v4.

A series to extending rbtrees to internally cache the leftmost node such
that we can have fast overlap check optimization for all interval tree
users[1].  The benefits of this series are that:

(i)   Unify users that do internal leftmost node caching.
(ii)  Optimize all interval tree users.
(iii) Convert at least two new users (epoll and procfs) to the new interface.

This patch (of 16):

Red-black tree semantics imply that nodes with smaller or greater (or
equal for duplicates) keys always be to the left and right,
respectively.  For the kernel this is extremely evident when considering
our rb_first() semantics.  Enabling lookups for the smallest node in the
tree in O(1) can save a good chunk of cycles in not having to walk down
the tree each time.  To this end there are a few core users that
explicitly do this, such as the scheduler and rtmutexes.  There is also
the desire for interval trees to have this optimization allowing faster
overlap checking.

This patch introduces a new 'struct rb_root_cached' which is just the
root with a cached pointer to the leftmost node.  The reason why the
regular rb_root was not extended instead of adding a new structure was
that this allows the user to have the choice between memory footprint
and actual tree performance.  The new wrappers on top of the regular
rb_root calls are:

 - rb_first_cached(cached_root) -- which is a fast replacement
     for rb_first.

 - rb_insert_color_cached(node, cached_root, new)

 - rb_erase_cached(node, cached_root)

In addition, augmented cached interfaces are also added for basic
insertion and deletion operations; which becomes important for the
interval tree changes.

With the exception of the inserts, which adds a bool for updating the
new leftmost, the interfaces are kept the same.  To this end, porting rb
users to the cached version becomes really trivial, and keeping current
rbtree semantics for users that don't care about the optimization
requires zero overhead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719014603.19029-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/rbtree.txt b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
index b8a8c70b0188..c42a21b99046 100644
--- a/Documentation/rbtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rbtree.txt
@@ -193,6 +193,39 @@ Example::
   for (node = rb_first(&mytree); node; node = rb_next(node))
 	printk("key=%s\n", rb_entry(node, struct mytype, node)->keystring);
 
+Cached rbtrees
+--------------
+
+Computing the leftmost (smallest) node is quite a common task for binary
+search trees, such as for traversals or users relying on a the particular
+order for their own logic. To this end, users can use 'struct rb_root_cached'
+to optimize O(logN) rb_first() calls to a simple pointer fetch avoiding
+potentially expensive tree iterations. This is done at negligible runtime
+overhead for maintanence; albeit larger memory footprint.
+
+Similar to the rb_root structure, cached rbtrees are initialized to be
+empty via:
+
+  struct rb_root_cached mytree = RB_ROOT_CACHED;
+
+Cached rbtree is simply a regular rb_root with an extra pointer to cache the
+leftmost node. This allows rb_root_cached to exist wherever rb_root does,
+which permits augmented trees to be supported as well as only a few extra
+interfaces:
+
+  struct rb_node *rb_first_cached(struct rb_root_cached *tree);
+  void rb_insert_color_cached(struct rb_node *, struct rb_root_cached *, bool);
+  void rb_erase_cached(struct rb_node *node, struct rb_root_cached *);
+
+Both insert and erase calls have their respective counterpart of augmented
+trees:
+
+  void rb_insert_augmented_cached(struct rb_node *node, struct rb_root_cached *,
+				  bool, struct rb_augment_callbacks *);
+  void rb_erase_augmented_cached(struct rb_node *, struct rb_root_cached *,
+				 struct rb_augment_callbacks *);
+
+
 Support for Augmented rbtrees
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