On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Patrick Bellasi
<patrick.bell...@arm.com> wrote:
> On 21-Jul 21:04, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 1:29 AM, Patrick Bellasi
>> <patrick.bell...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> > +static inline unsigned int scale_from_percent(unsigned int pct)
>> > +{
>> > + WARN_ON(pct > 100);
>> > +
>> > + return ((SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SCALE * pct) / 100);
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +static inline unsigned int scale_to_percent(unsigned int value)
>> > +{
>> > + unsigned int rounding = 0;
>> > +
>> > + WARN_ON(value > SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SCALE);
>> > +
>> > + /* Compensate rounding errors for: 0, 256, 512, 768, 1024 */
>> > + if (likely((value & 0xFF) && ~(value & 0x700)))
>> > + rounding = 1;
>>
>> Hmm. I don't think ~(value & 0x700) will ever yield FALSE... What am I
>> missing?
>
> So, 0x700 is the topmost 3 bits sets (111 0000 0000) which different
> configuration corresponds to:
>
> 001 0000 0000 => 256
> 010 0000 0000 => 512
> 011 0000 0000 => 768
> 100 0000 0000 => 1024
>
> Thus, if 0x700 matches then we have one of these values in input and
> for these cases we have to add a unit to the percentage value.
>
> For the case (value == 0) we translate it into 0% thanks to the check
> on (value & 0xFF) to ensure rounding = 0.
>
I think just (value & 0xFF) is enough to get you the right behavior.
~(value & 0x700) is not needed, it's effectively a NoOp which always
yields TRUE. For any *value* (value & 0x700) == 0x...00 and ~(value &
0x700) == 0x...FF == TRUE.
> Here is a small python snippet I've used to check the conversion of
> all the possible percentage values:
>
> ---8<---
> values = range(0, 101)
> for pct in xrange(0, 101):
> util = int((1024 * pct) / 100)
> rounding = 1
> if not ((util & 0xFF) and ~(util & 0x700)):
> print "Fixing util_to_perc({:3d} => {:4d})".format(pct, util)
> rounding = 0
> pct2 = (rounding + ((100 * util) / 1024))
> if pct2 in values:
> values.remove(pct2)
> if pct != pct2:
> print "Convertion failed for: {:3d} => {:4d} =>
> {:3d}".format(pct, util, pct2)
> if values:
> print "ERROR: not all percentage values converted"
> ---8<---
>
> --
> #include <best/regards.h>
>
> Patrick Bellasi
