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Stanislaw Gruszka committed 55eaa7c1f51
sched: Avoid cputime scaling overflow
Here is patch, which adds Linus's cputime scaling algorithm to the
kernel.
This is a follow up (well, fix) to commit
d9a3c9823a2e6a543eb7807fb3d15d8233817ec5 ("sched: Lower chances
of cputime scaling overflow") which commit tried to avoid
multiplication overflow, but did not guarantee that the overflow
would not happen.
Linus crated a different algorithm, which completely avoids the
multiplication overflow by dropping precision when numbers are
big.
It was tested by me and it gives good relative error of
scaled numbers. Testing method is described here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136733059505406&w=2
Originally-From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130430151441.GC10465@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>