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From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Venki Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] sched: normalize tg load contributions against runnable time
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:08:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120712010804.GN32601@systemlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341575532.7709.47.camel@twins>

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On Fri, Jul 06, 13:52, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This then yields:
> 
>   P(\Union_{i=1..n} u_i) ~= \Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^(k-1) (n choose k) u^k
> 
> Which unfortunately isn't a series I found a sane solution for, but
> numerically (see below) we can see it very quickly approaches 1 when n
> >> 1.

Isn't this series just 1 - (1 - u)^n? So yes, it converges quickly to 1
if u is a probability.

Andre
-- 
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-12  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-28  2:24 [PATCH 00/16] Series short description Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 01/16] sched: track the runnable average on a per-task entitiy basis Paul Turner
2012-06-28  6:06   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-07-12  0:14     ` Paul Turner
2012-07-04 15:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-12  0:12     ` Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 06/16] sched: account for blocked load waking back up Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 05/16] sched: add an rq migration call-back to sched_class Paul Turner
2012-06-29  1:32   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 09/16] sched: normalize tg load contributions against runnable time Paul Turner
2012-06-29  7:26   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-07-04 19:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-06 11:52     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-12  1:08       ` Andre Noll [this message]
2012-07-12  0:02     ` Paul Turner
2012-07-06 12:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 03/16] sched: aggregate load contributed by task entities on parenting cfs_rq Paul Turner
2012-06-28  6:33   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-07-04 15:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-06 14:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-09  9:15       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 07/16] sched: aggregate total task_group load Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 08/16] sched: compute load contribution by a group entity Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 02/16] sched: maintain per-rq runnable averages Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 04/16] sched: maintain the load contribution of blocked entities Paul Turner
2012-06-29  1:27   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 14/16] sched: make __update_entity_runnable_avg() fast Paul Turner
2012-07-04 15:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 17:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-09 20:18       ` Benjamin Segall
2012-07-10 10:51         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-12  0:15           ` Paul Turner
2012-07-12 14:30             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-04 16:51   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 11/16] sched: replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 16/16] sched: introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 10/16] sched: maintain runnable averages across throttled periods Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 13/16] sched: update_cfs_shares at period edge Paul Turner
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 12/16] sched: refactor update_shares_cpu() -> update_blocked_avgs() Paul Turner
2012-06-29  7:28   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-07-12  0:03     ` Paul Turner
2012-07-05 11:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-12  0:11     ` Paul Turner
2012-07-12 14:40       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-28  2:24 ` [PATCH 15/16] sched: implement usage tracking Paul Turner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-23 14:14 [patch 00/16] sched: per-entity load-tracking pjt
2012-08-23 14:14 ` [patch 09/16] sched: normalize tg load contributions against runnable time pjt

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