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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] div64_64 support
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:04:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070306120433.3863e6c9@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070306194841.GA5424@one.firstfloor.org>
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:48:41 +0100
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 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?
It was caused by not doing x^2 in 64 bit.
>
> SGI has already shipped 10TB Altixen, so it's not entirely theoretical.
>
> -Andi
>
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-24 1:05 Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-24 16:19 ` Sami Farin
2007-02-26 19:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-26 19:39 ` David Miller
2007-02-26 20:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-26 21:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27 1:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-27 3:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-26 22:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-26 23:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-26 23:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27 0:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-27 0:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-27 0:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-27 6:21 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-03 2:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-05 23:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 0:25 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 13:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 14:04 ` [RFC] div64_64 support II Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 17:43 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2007-03-06 18:25 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-03-06 13:34 ` [RFC] div64_64 support Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 14:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-06 14:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 15:10 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-03-06 18:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 19:48 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-06 20:04 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-03-06 21:53 ` Sami Farin
2007-03-06 22:24 ` Sami Farin
2007-03-07 0:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-07 0:05 ` David Miller
2007-03-07 0:05 ` Sami Farin
2007-03-07 16:11 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-07 18:32 ` Sami Farin
2007-03-08 18:23 ` asm volatile [Was: [RFC] div64_64 support] Sami Farin
2007-03-08 22:01 ` asm volatile David Miller
2007-03-06 21:58 ` [RFC] div64_64 support David Miller
2007-03-06 22:47 ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: faster cube root Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-06 22:58 ` cube root benchmark code Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-07 6:08 ` Update to " Willy Tarreau
2007-03-08 1:07 ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: use 32 bit math Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-08 2:55 ` David Miller
2007-03-08 3:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-08 3:51 ` David Miller
2007-03-10 11:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-12 21:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-13 20:50 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-21 18:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-21 19:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-21 19:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-21 20:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] div64_64 optimization Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-21 20:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] tcp: cubic optimization Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-22 19:11 ` David Miller
2007-03-22 19:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] div64_64 optimization David Miller
2007-03-08 4:16 ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: use 32 bit math Willy Tarreau
2007-03-07 4:20 ` [PATCH] tcp_cubic: faster cube root David Miller
2007-03-07 12:12 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-07 19:33 ` David Miller
2007-03-06 18:50 ` [RFC] div64_64 support H. Peter Anvin
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