Re: [PATCH] ftrace: print sample std dev when function profiling

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Apr 27 2010 - 16:50:11 EST


On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 14:02 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:

> + /* Sample standard deviation (s^2) */
> + if (rec->counter <= 1)
> + stddev = 0;
> + else {
> + stddev = rec->time_squared - rec->counter * avg * avg;
> + do_div(stddev, (rec->counter - 1) * 1000); /* ns^2 -> us^2 */

Shouldn't this be:

do_div(stddev, (rec->counter - 1) * 1000000); ?

(x / 1000)^2 == x^2 / 1000^2


-- Steve

> + }
> +


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