[PATCH] low performance of lib/sort.c

It is a non-standard heap-sort algorithm implementation because the index
of child node is wrong .  The sort function still outputs right result, but
the performance is O( n * ( log(n) + 1 ) ) , about 10% ~ 20% worse than
standard algorithm.

Signed-off-by: keios <keios.cn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/lib/sort.c b/lib/sort.c
index 5f3b51ffa1dc2a6897b09b42cee81ef2870b9ec8..488788b341cb01960b92163b9326ec85c2a33445 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sort.c
+++ b/lib/sort.c
@@ -49,15 +49,15 @@ void sort(void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
          void (*swap)(void *, void *, int size))
 {
        /* pre-scale counters for performance */
-       int i = (num/2) * size, n = num * size, c, r;
+       int i = (num/2 - 1) * size, n = num * size, c, r;
 
        if (!swap)
                swap = (size == 4 ? u32_swap : generic_swap);
 
        /* heapify */
        for ( ; i >= 0; i -= size) {
-               for (r = i; r * 2 < n; r  = c) {
-                       c = r * 2;
+               for (r = i; r * 2 + size < n; r  = c) {
+                       c = r * 2 + size;
                        if (c < n - size && cmp(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
                                c += size;
                        if (cmp(base + r, base + c) >= 0)
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ void sort(void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
        /* sort */
        for (i = n - size; i >= 0; i -= size) {
                swap(base, base + i, size);
-               for (r = 0; r * 2 < i; r = c) {
-                       c = r * 2;
+               for (r = 0; r * 2 + size < i; r = c) {
+                       c = r * 2 + size;
                        if (c < i - size && cmp(base + c, base + c + size) < 0)
                                c += size;
                        if (cmp(base + r, base + c) >= 0)