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From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	 linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kan Yan <kyan@google.com>,
	 Make-Wifi-fast <make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	Yibo Zhao <yiboz@codeaurora.org>,
	 Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [PATCH v5] mac80211: Switch to a virtual time-based airtime scheduler
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 10:47:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXoiyWKSLHqMzMcSzHBM-HhfYtcURW1hYd-3Yf7K00NTqgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r20ck3x9.fsf@toke.dk>

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:20 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
> Or do a middle ground thing where we use 32-bit arithmetic
> for the per-station weights, but go to 64-bit for the weight sum? I
> don't really have a good grip on how much of a performance impact we're
> talking about here, so I'm not sure which I prefer...

Double width accumulation is very common in many applications.
Double width addition and comparison are _much_ cheaper than
double width multiplication and division.

/john

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-06 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-22 17:24 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-02 14:13 ` Johannes Berg
2020-01-06 15:20   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-06 15:47     ` John Yates [this message]
2020-01-06 15:54       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-01-06 22:19         ` John Yates
2020-01-07 10:43           ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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