* Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is patch, which add Linus cputime scaling algorithm to the kernel. > > This is follow up of commit d9a3c9823a2e6a543eb7807fb3d15d8233817ec5 > "sched: Lower chances of cputime scaling overflow" which try to avoid > multiplication overflow, but not guarantee that the overflow will not > happen. > > Linus crated different algorithm, which avoid completely multiplication > overflow by dropping precision when numbers are big. It was tested > by me and it gives good relative error of scaled numbers. > > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
For multi-authored code it's generally nice to add a tag like this: Originally-From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> It would also be nice to quote the testing results/output and the precision estimations in the changelog - so that others can see the code's current capabilities and limitations. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
