Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

Rogan Dawes
2007-04-24T08:26:18Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net> wrote:
>
>>> if (p_to && p->wait_runtime > 0) {
>>> p->wait_runtime >>= 1;
>>> p_to->wait_runtime += p->wait_runtime;
>>> }
>>>
>>> the above is the basic expression of: "charge a positive bank balance".
>>>
>> [..]
>>
>>> [note, due to the nanoseconds unit there's no rounding loss to worry
>>> about.]
>> Surely if you divide 5 nanoseconds by 2, you'll get a rounding loss?
>
> yes. But not that we'll only truly have to worry about that when we'll
> have context-switching performance in that range - currently it's at
> least 2-3 orders of magnitude above that. Microseconds seemed to me to
> be too coarse already, that's why i picked nanoseconds and 64-bit
> arithmetics for CFS.
>
> Ingo

I guess my point was if we somehow get to an odd number of nanoseconds,
we'd end up with rounding errors. I'm not sure if your algorithm will
ever allow that.

Rogan