Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpuidle: Add a repeating pattern detector to themenu governor

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon May 10 2010 - 21:25:24 EST


On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:38:50 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > + if (avg && stddev < STDDEV_THRESH)
> > + data->predicted_us = avg;
> > +}
>
> You got lucky there, because INTERVALS is a power of two. If someone
> changes INTERVALS to 7, this code will ask for __udivdi3 and won't
> link on i364.

yeah you'd think it almost isn't an accident ;-)


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