From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] div64_64 support Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:04:33 -0800 Message-ID: <20070306120433.3863e6c9@freekitty> References: <20070223170527.4ca695b2@freekitty> <20070305155714.3abe1b5e@freekitty> <20070306133404.GA864@one.firstfloor.org> <200703061519.20346.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <20070306144529.GA2004@one.firstfloor.org> <84C47260-4B57-4568-8197-58F438A6F737@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> <20070306102941.32471d57@freekitty> <20070306194841.GA5424@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Roland Kuhn , Andi Kleen , Eric Dumazet , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:55345 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751325AbXCFUIX (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:08:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070306194841.GA5424@one.firstfloor.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:48:41 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:29:41AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Don't count the existing Newton-Raphson out. It turns out that to get enough > > precision for 32 bits, only 4 iterations are needed. By unrolling those, it > > gets much better timing. > > But did you fix the >2^43 bug too? It was caused by not doing x^2 in 64 bit. > > SGI has already shipped 10TB Altixen, so it's not entirely theoretical. > > -Andi > -- Stephen Hemminger