BUG/MINOR: freq-ctr: make swrate_add() support larger values
Reinhard Vicinus reported that the reported average response times cannot
be larger than 16s due to the double multiply being performed by
swrate_add() which causes an overflow very quickly. Indeed, with N=512,
the highest average value is 16448.
One solution proposed by Reinhard is to turn to long long, but this
involves 64x64 multiplies and 64->32 divides, which are extremely
expensive on 32-bit platforms.
There is in fact another way to avoid the overflow without using larger
integers, it consists in avoiding the multiply using the fact that
x*(n-1)/N = x-(x/N).
Now it becomes possible to store average values as large as 8.4 millions,
which is around 2h18mn.
Interestingly, this improvement also makes the code cheaper to execute
both on 32 and on 64 bit platforms :
Before :
00000000 <swrate_add>:
0: 8b 54 24 04 mov 0x4(%esp),%edx
4: 8b 0a mov (%edx),%ecx
6: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
8: c1 e0 09 shl $0x9,%eax
b: 29 c8 sub %ecx,%eax
d: 8b 4c 24 0c mov 0xc(%esp),%ecx
11: c1 e8 09 shr $0x9,%eax
14: 01 c8 add %ecx,%eax
16: 89 02 mov %eax,(%edx)
After :
00000020 <swrate_add>:
20: 8b 4c 24 04 mov 0x4(%esp),%ecx
24: 8b 44 24 0c mov 0xc(%esp),%eax
28: 8b 11 mov (%ecx),%edx
2a: 01 d0 add %edx,%eax
2c: 81 c2 ff 01 00 00 add $0x1ff,%edx
32: c1 ea 09 shr $0x9,%edx
35: 29 d0 sub %edx,%eax
37: 89 01 mov %eax,(%ecx)
This fix may be backported to 1.6.
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