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| author | Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> | 2006-12-10 00:03:30 -0200 | 
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-12-11 14:34:44 -0800 | 
| commit | bfe24a6cc222d27e1491f850802fa6932232b8ef (patch) | |
| tree | a1782cdb20b19ffb07e1e7ce1ab7aba34fddcecd /net/lapb | |
| parent | b9039a2a8df974d7702564318722434bb276a995 (diff) | |
[DCCP] ccid3: Simplify calculation for reverse lookup of p
 This simplifies the calculation of a value p for a given fval when the
 first loss interval is computed (RFC 3448, 6.3.1). It makes use of the
 two new functions scaled_div/scaled_div32 to provide overflow protection.
 Additionally, protection against divide-by-zero is extended - in this
 case the function will return the maximally possible value of p=100%.
Background:
 The maximum fval, f(100%), is approximately 244, i.e. the scaled value of fval
 should never exceed 244E6, which fits easily into u32. The problem is the scaling
 by 10^6, since additionally R(TT) is in microseconds.
 This is resolved by breaking the division into two stages: the first stage
 computes fval=(s*10^6)/R, stores that into u64; the second stage computes
 fval = (fval*10^6)/X_recv and complains if overflow is reached for u32.
 This case is safe since the TFRC reverse-lookup routine then returns p=100%.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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