Re: [PATCH -tip 1/4] sched: Avoid cputime scaling overflow

[Ingo Molnar]

* Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>

For multi-authored code it's generally nice to add a tag like this:

   Originally-From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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
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