Re: [RFC V2 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:00:33PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > +static inline u32 stats_mean(struct stats *s)
> > +{
> > +	/*
> > +	 * gcc is smart enough to convert to a bits shift when the
> > +	 * divisor is constant and multiple of 2^x.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * The number of values could have not reached STATS_NR_VALUES
> > +	 * yet, but we can consider it acceptable as the situation is
> > +	 * only at the beginning of the burst of irqs.
> > +	 */
> > +	return s->sum / STATS_NR_VALUES;
> > +}
> 
> Note that ->sum is u64, so you're very prone to truncation.

It won't.  It is the sum of u32 values, so the mean of those values 
can't exceed 32 bits.


Nicolas