Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/17/2011 02:39 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> We can do much better than that with reciprocal multiplication.  
> 
> Yes, 2^64/1e9 is the reciprocal.
> 

What I mean is that it's pretty easy to work it so it doesn't have the
errors.  We have 32*32 = 64 multiplication on all 32-bit platforms I'm
99.9% sure.

	-hpa

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/