Re: [PATCH 2/4] kernfs: make kernfs_path*() behave in the style of strlcpy()
From: Tejun Heo <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-09 19:58:19
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From: Tejun Heo <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-09 19:58:19
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Hello, Serge. On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:33:05AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
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+ for (i = depth_to - 1; i >= 0; i--) { + for (kn = kn_to, j = 0; j < i; j++) + kn = kn->parent;This is O(n^2) where n is the path depth. It's not a hot path, though, do we care?
I don't think it matters. It's a slow path and cgroup hierarchies aren't supposed to be super deep to begin with. If it ever does, we can replace the cgroup->ancestor_ids[] array with ancestor pointer array and walk that instead. Thanks. -- tejun