Re: [PATCH 05/16] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE policy implementation.

[Tommaso Cucinotta]

Il 23/04/2012 22:58, Peter Zijlstra ha scritto:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 22:55 +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> > why not write this straight in asm, i.e., multiply 64*64 then divide by
> > 64 keeping the intermediate result on 128 bits?
> If you know of a way to do this for all 30 odd architectures supported
> by our beloved kernel, do let me know ;-)

:-)
> Yes I can do it for x86_64, but people tend to get mighty upset if you
> break the compile for all other arches...

rather than breaking compile, I was thinking more of using the 
optimization for a more accurate comparison on archs that have 64-bit 
mul and 128-bit cmp, and leaving the overflow on other archs. Though, 
that would imply a difference in behavior on those borderline cases 
(very big periods I guess).

However, I'm also puzzled from what would happen by compiling the 
current code on mostly 16-bit micros which have very limited 32-bit 
operations...

    T.

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