Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: fix calc_cfs_shares fixed point arithmetics

[Samuel Thibault]

Dietmar Eggemann, on Tue 20 Dec 2016 14:04:34 +0100, wrote:
> On 12/20/2016 12:45 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >Paul Turner, on Mon 19 Dec 2016 15:32:15 -0800, wrote:
> >>On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Samuel Thibault
> >><samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>Paul Turner, on Mon 19 Dec 2016 15:26:19 -0800, wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>The MIN_SHARES you are seeing here is overloaded.
> >>In the unscaled case this needs to be MIN_SHARES, and in the scaled
> >>case, the subdivision of the scaled values must still be >=2.
> >
> >Ok, now I understand.  I have to say this overloading is confusing.
> >
> >Samuel
> 
> this had been already discussed back in August when I posted the original
> patch.

But that doesn't show up in the source code or git history.  One
shouldn't have to dig mailing lists to get code comments :)

Samuel