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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] div64_64 support
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:48:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070306194841.GA5424@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306102941.32471d57@freekitty>

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:29:41AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Don't count the existing Newton-Raphson out. It turns out that to get enough
> precision for 32 bits, only 4 iterations are needed. By unrolling those, it
> gets much better timing.

But did you fix the >2^43 bug too?

SGI has already shipped 10TB Altixen, so it's not entirely theoretical.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-24  1:05 [RFC] div64_64 support Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-24 16:19 ` Sami Farin
2007-02-26 19:28   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-26 19:39     ` David Miller
2007-02-26 20:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-26 21:28   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27  1:20     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-27  3:45       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-26 22:31   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-26 23:02     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-26 23:44       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27  0:05         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-27  0:07           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27  0:14             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-27  6:21     ` Dan Williams
2007-03-03  2:31     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-05 23:57       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06  0:25         ` David Miller
2007-03-06 13:36           ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 14:04           ` [RFC] div64_64 support II Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 17:43             ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2007-03-06 18:25               ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:48             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-06 13:34         ` [RFC] div64_64 support Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 14:19           ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 14:45             ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 15:10               ` Roland Kuhn
2007-03-06 18:29                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 19:48                   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-06 20:04                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 21:53                   ` Sami Farin
2007-03-06 22:24                     ` Sami Farin
2007-03-07  0:00                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-07  0:05                         ` David Miller
2007-03-07  0:05                         ` Sami Farin
2007-03-07 16:11                       ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-07 18:32                         ` Sami Farin
2007-03-08 18:23                       ` asm volatile [Was: [RFC] div64_64 support] Sami Farin
2007-03-08 22:01                         ` asm volatile David Miller
2007-03-06 21:58                   ` [RFC] div64_64 support David Miller
2007-03-06 22:47                     ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: faster cube root Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 22:58                       ` cube root benchmark code Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-07  6:08                         ` Update to " Willy Tarreau
2007-03-08  1:07                           ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: use 32 bit math Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-08  2:55                             ` David Miller
2007-03-08  3:10                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-08  3:51                                 ` David Miller
2007-03-10 11:48                                   ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-12 21:11                                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-13 20:50                                       ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-21 18:54                                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-21 19:15                                           ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-21 19:58                                             ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-21 20:15                                             ` [PATCH 1/2] div64_64 optimization Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-21 20:17                                               ` [PATCH 2/2] tcp: cubic optimization Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-22 19:11                                                 ` David Miller
2007-03-22 19:11                                               ` [PATCH 1/2] div64_64 optimization David Miller
2007-03-08  4:16                                 ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: use 32 bit math Willy Tarreau
2007-03-07  4:20                       ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: faster cube root David Miller
2007-03-07 12:12                         ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-07 19:33                           ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:50               ` [RFC] div64_64 support H. Peter Anvin

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