* Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> __pick_last_entity() walks the entire tree on O(lgn) time to find the
> rightmost entry. This patch makes the routine more efficient by
> reducing the cost of the lookup
hm, i'm not sure we want to do this: we'd be slowing down the fastpath
of all the other common scheduler functions, for the sake of a rarely
used (and broken ...) API: yield. And note that an rbtree walk is not
slow at all - if you are yielding frequently it's probably all cached.
Ingo
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