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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] batctl: Correct mdev calculation in ping subcommand
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:00:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005201900.01910.sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005201851.54709.sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>

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Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Daniel Seither wrote:
> > Fixes the calculation of the mean absolute deviation (mdev)
> > of the roundtrip times. mdev was previously calculated by
> > computing the difference of maximum and minimum round trip times.
> > 
> > The calculation is now done using the same formula as in the iputils
> > ping program.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Seither <post@tiwoc.de>
> 
> Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>

Ok, have a small suggestion. Please check that mdev - ... is positive. 
Otherwise we would have something like (mdev - avg * avg == -0.000....., 
sqrt(...) == NaN):

PING 02:00:00:00:00:02 (02:00:00:00:00:02) 19(47) bytes of data
19 bytes from 02:00:00:00:00:02 icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=0.10 ms
--- 02:00:00:00:00:02 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.101/0.101/0.101/nan ms

Best regards,
	Sven

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20 16:29 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] batctl: Correct mdev calculation in ping subcommand Daniel Seither
2010-05-20 16:51 ` Sven Eckelmann
2010-05-20 17:00   ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
2010-05-20 17:58     ` Daniel Seither
2010-05-20 18:06       ` Sven Eckelmann

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