Re: [PATCH 05/13] rbtree: performance and correctness test

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:35:15 +0200, Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +       u32 prev_key = 0;
>> +
>> +       for (rb = rb_first(&root); rb; rb = rb_next(rb)) {
>> +               struct test_node *node = rb_entry(rb, struct test_node,
>> rb);
>> +               WARN_ON_ONCE(node->key < prev_key);
>
> What if for some reason we generate node with key equal zero or two keys
> with the same value?  It may not be the case for current code, but someone
> might change it in the future.  I think <= is safer here.

No, it's not illegal for two nodes to have the same key; the second
one to be inserted will just get placed after the first one. The
rbtree library doesn't care either way as it's not even aware of the
key values :)

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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