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    lockdep: Reintroduce generation count to make BFS faster · e351b660
    Ming Lei authored
    
    
    We still can apply DaveM's generation count optimization to
    BFS, based on the following idea:
    
     - before doing each BFS, increase the global generation id
       by 1
    
     - if one node in the graph has been visited, mark it as
       visited by storing the current global generation id into
       the node's dep_gen_id field
    
     - so we can decide if one node has been visited already, by
       comparing the node's dep_gen_id with the global generation id.
    
    By applying DaveM's generation count optimization to current
    implementation of BFS, we gain the following advantages:
    
     - we save MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES/8 bytes memory;
    
     - we remove the bitmap_zero(bfs_accessed, MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES);
       in each BFS, which is very time-consuming since
       MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES may be very large.(16384UL)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
    LKML-Reference: <1248274089-6358-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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