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Re: [PATCH] PKT_SCHED: Make rate estimator work for all platforms

To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PKT_SCHED: Make rate estimator work for all platforms
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04 Oct 2004 19:47:34 -0400
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20041004211152.GF15898@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: jamalopolous
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Looking good.
Dave, Please apply all the patches (earlier 3 + this one) that Thomas
posted.

cheers,
jamal

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 17:11, Thomas Graf wrote:
> Fixes the existing rate estimator to compile cleanly on all platforms
> and avoids carrying on the variance on platforms with HZ%4 != 0.
> 
> Patch also applies to 2.4 with some fuzz.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk4.orig/net/sched/estimator.c    2004-10-04 
> 22:41:26.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.9-rc3-bk4/net/sched/estimator.c 2004-10-04 22:53:54.000000000 
> +0200
> @@ -66,15 +66,11 @@
>  
>     * Minimal interval is HZ/4=250msec (it is the greatest common divisor
>       for HZ=100 and HZ=1024 8)), maximal interval
> -     is (HZ/4)*2^EST_MAX_INTERVAL = 8sec. Shorter intervals
> +     is (HZ*2^EST_MAX_INTERVAL)/4 = 8sec. Shorter intervals
>       are too expensive, longer ones can be implemented
>       at user level painlessly.
>   */
>  
> -#if (HZ%4) != 0
> -#error Bad HZ value.
> -#endif
> -
>  #define EST_MAX_INTERVAL     5
>  
>  struct qdisc_estimator
> @@ -128,7 +124,7 @@
>               spin_unlock(e->stats_lock);
>       }
>  
> -     mod_timer(&elist[idx].timer, jiffies + ((HZ/4)<<idx));
> +     mod_timer(&elist[idx].timer, jiffies + ((HZ<<idx)/4));
>       read_unlock(&est_lock);
>  }
>  
> @@ -161,7 +157,7 @@
>       if (est->next == NULL) {
>               init_timer(&elist[est->interval].timer);
>               elist[est->interval].timer.data = est->interval;
> -             elist[est->interval].timer.expires = jiffies + 
> ((HZ/4)<<est->interval);
> +             elist[est->interval].timer.expires = jiffies + 
> ((HZ<<est->interval)/4);
>               elist[est->interval].timer.function = est_timer;
>               add_timer(&elist[est->interval].timer);
>       }
> 


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