[Codel] [PATCH net-next] codel: use Newton method instead of sqrt() and divides

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 23:48:44 +0200

> On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 16:45 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> Using a u16 would also work for me.
> 
> I tried it but it gives noticeable errors for count > 16000, and no
> speed gain.
 ...
> And if a flow is really agressive, count can grow above 10^6
> 
>> > By the way, gcc on x86 generates nice "and 0xfffffffe,%eax" instruction
>> > for (vars->rec_inv_sqrt << 1).
>> 
>> Yeah but what do stores of ->rec_inv_sqrt look like?
> 
> The load is "shr %edi" as in :
> and the store an "or %ecx,%esi"

Ok, fair enough.