"Append to the list and do a merge sort" is not really an insertion sort. While a few more lines of code, we can keep the list sorted doing at most n comparisons by iterating until we find the first element strictly greater than gb. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I have no idea if the performance matters (it probably doesn't). Feel free to ignore this and the followup cleanup. drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c index 7080294f705c..89c3f6fd8ddf 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c @@ -1013,9 +1013,19 @@ static int gb_loopback_bus_id_compare(void *priv, struct list_head *lha, static void gb_loopback_insert_id(struct gb_loopback *gb) { - /* perform an insertion sort */ - list_add_tail(&gb->entry, &gb_dev.list); - list_sort(NULL, &gb_dev.list, gb_loopback_bus_id_compare); + struct gb_loopback *gb_list; + + /* + * Keep the list sorted. Insert gb before the first element it + * compares strictly less than. If no such element exists, the + * loop terminates with &gb_list->entry being &gb_dev.list, + * and we thus insert at the end. + */ + list_for_each_entry(gb_list, &gb_dev.list, entry) { + if (gb_loopback_bus_id_compare(NULL, &gb->entry, &gb_list->entry) < 0) + break; + } + list_add_tail(&gb->entry, &gb_list->entry); } #define DEBUGFS_NAMELEN 32 -- 2.19.0 _______________________________________________ greybus-dev mailing list greybus-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/greybus-dev