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X-OriginatorOrg: amd.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jan 2025 11:43:08.4293 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Network-Message-Id: 4ff7ece7-4f90-436d-3ad0-08dd30a2c9cc X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Id: 3dd8961f-e488-4e60-8e11-a82d994e183d X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalAttributedTenantConnectingIp: TenantId=3dd8961f-e488-4e60-8e11-a82d994e183d;Ip=[165.204.84.17];Helo=[SATLEXMB04.amd.com] X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthSource: BL02EPF0001A101.namprd05.prod.outlook.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthAs: Anonymous X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-FromEntityHeader: HybridOnPrem X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: CY8PR12MB8297 > The present division by two appears to be somewhat randomly chosen. > And as far as I can tell, this patch proposes replacing that with > another somewhat random adjustment. > > What's the actual design here? What are we attempting to do and why, > and why is the proposed design superior to the present one? We are further analyzing both the designs and their impact on pcp list. > Nice, but might other workloads on other machines get slower? We are studying the impact of this on other network workloads like netperf, and will post those results soon.