Re: [PATCH 2/2] Rewrite gsync so that it works with remote tasks v2

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, on sam. 04 mars 2017 22:45:08 +0100, wrote:
> Agustina Arzille, on mer. 01 févr. 2017 12:32:53 -0300, wrote:
> > /* Look for a key that matches. We take advantage of the fact
> >  * that the entries are sorted to break out of the loop as
> >  * early as possible. */
> 
> Do we really want to keep that list sorted?  That makes waking up two
> times less expensive, but it makes waiting much more expensive, so
> overall it's just the same.

There is the broadcast case which would then have to go through the
whole list instead of half of the list in average.  I'd however tend to
prefer to optimize the non-broadcast case over the broadcast case, since
broadcasts are rare.

Samuel