Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched,time: remove non-power-of-two divides from __acct_update_integrals

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Feb 01 2016 - 04:32:46 EST


On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 09:37:00AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, riel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > @@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ void xacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *p)
> > > {
> > > struct mm_struct *mm;
> > >
> > > - /* convert pages-usec to Mbyte-usec */
> > > - stats->coremem = p->acct_rss_mem1 * PAGE_SIZE / MB;
> > > - stats->virtmem = p->acct_vm_mem1 * PAGE_SIZE / MB;
> > > + /* convert pages-nsec/1024 to Mbyte-usec, see __acct_update_integrals */
> > > + stats->coremem = p->acct_rss_mem1 * PAGE_SIZE / (1000 * KB);
> > > + stats->virtmem = p->acct_vm_mem1 * PAGE_SIZE / (1000 * KB);
> >
> > You replace "/ (1024 * 1024)" by "/ (1000 * 1024). So that's introducing a non
> > power of 2 division instead of removing one and wont compile on systems which
> > do not have a 64/32 division in hardware.
>
> Yep, so that needs to be fixed to use do_div(). But the reason for this
> is that this is the consumer side of these stats and therefore rarely
> executed.
>
> This patch effectively moves a div out of the fast path into the slow
> path.

Yeah, noticed after hitting Send :)