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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Benjamin Segall <bsegall@google.com>
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>,
	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 14/16] sched: make __update_entity_runnable_avg() fast
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:51:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341917490.3462.119.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xm26fw90zo16.fsf@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 13:18 -0700, Benjamin Segall wrote:
> Correct, the sum is 1..n. The maximum was chosen as 516/46742 because
> that is the point when the approximation of loop + fixed point math
> being used reaches a maximum, even if the ideal y^n series would cap out
> slightly differently.

Can you run a simple kid like me through the math here.. it seems
strange that fixed point math would give a higher order term than the
regular case. And by such a wide margin as well, (516-320)/32 ~ 6, so
that's 1/64-th of the 320-th term.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-10 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ 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 07/16] sched: aggregate total task_group load 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 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 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 08/16] sched: compute load contribution by a group entity 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 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
2012-07-12  0:02     ` Paul Turner
2012-07-06 12:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
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 10/16] sched: maintain runnable averages across throttled periods 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
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 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 [this message]
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 13/16] sched: update_cfs_shares at period edge 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 14/16] sched: make __update_entity_runnable_avg() fast pjt
2012-08-24  8:28   ` Namhyung Kim
2012-08-28 22:18     ` Paul Turner

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