Re: [RFC] div64_64 support

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 14:49:17 EST


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?

SGI has already shipped 10TB Altixen, so it's not entirely theoretical.

-Andi

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