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Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup table

From Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup table
Date 2016-04-12 01:10 +0200
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A few comments:

On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 06:36 +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> __compute_runnable_contrib() uses a loop to compute sum, whereas a
> table loopup can do it faster in a constant time.

lookup typo

> The following python script can be used to generate the constants:

Thanks for including the script.
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
[]
> @@ -2603,6 +2603,15 @@ static const u32 runnable_avg_yN_sum[] = {
>  };
>  
>  /*
> + * Precomputed \Sum y^k { 1<=k<=n, where n%32=0). Values are rolled down to
> + * lower integers.
> + */
> +static const u32 __accumulated_sum_N32[] = {
> +	    0, 23371, 35056, 40899, 43820, 45281,
> +	46011, 46376, 46559, 46650, 46696, 46719,
> +};
> +
> +/*
>   * Approximate:
>   *   val * y^n,    where y^32 ~= 0.5 (~1 scheduling period)
>   */
> @@ -2650,14 +2659,9 @@ static u32 __compute_runnable_contrib(u64 n)
>  	else if (unlikely(n >= LOAD_AVG_MAX_N))
>  		return LOAD_AVG_MAX;
>  
> -	/* Compute \Sum k^n combining precomputed values for k^i, \Sum k^j */
> -	do {
> -		contrib /= 2; /* y^LOAD_AVG_PERIOD = 1/2 */
> -		contrib += runnable_avg_yN_sum[LOAD_AVG_PERIOD];
> -
> -		n -= LOAD_AVG_PERIOD;
> -	} while (n > LOAD_AVG_PERIOD);
> -
> +	/* Since n < LOAD_AVG_MAX_N, n/LOAD_AVG_PERIOD < 11 */
> +	contrib = __accumulated_sum_N32[n>>5]; /* =n/LOAD_AVG_PERIOD */

Perhaps the variable name could be improved and
the comment block around the runnable_avg_yN
declarations should include this new declaration.

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[PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup table Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2016-04-11 08:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup table Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> - 2016-04-11 11:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> - 2016-04-11 12:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2016-04-12 05:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> - 2016-04-12 12:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2016-04-13 04:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> - 2016-04-13 11:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> - 2016-04-11 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-12 01:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> - 2016-04-12 14:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2016-04-12 05:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-12 16:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> - 2016-04-13 04:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Optimize sum computation with a lookup  table Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-04-12 01:10 +0200

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