[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] ASoC: soc-cache: block based rbtree compression

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 3 May 2011 16:48:47 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:47:07PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > IMO, it's easier to expose an API that allows the update of an
> > register array.  The rest is a job of the cache backend stuff. 
> > As a fallback, it can be a loop of the single read/write.
> 
> We'll want to do that as well, but we still want the actual data
> structure underneath to support that.  Since most register maps that
> benefit from compression are also sparse rbtree is the common case for
> getting a win from this.

Hm, but iteration in the sorted order is pretty easy and cheap in
rb-tree structure.  It's not necessarily to be exported in an array.


Takashi