Re: [PATCH] Change min/max to float numbers

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On 2025-02-06 12:02:49 [-0300], Rafael Folco wrote:
> On 06/02/25 09:00, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2025-02-06 06:16:22 [-0300], Rafael Folco wrote:
> >> Make min/max consistent with avg by recording the latency samples
> >> as float numbers instead of integers.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> - More precise numbers of Max/Min for extreme low latency cases
> - Distinguish zero latency in bucket 001 (us)
> - Distinguish values from upper/lower boundaries in a bucket
> - Clarify confusion on average (round up) vs maximum in the next bucket (casting)
> 
> Instead of:
>         Core:    3 4 5
> Counter Freq:    2100 2100 2100 (MHz)
>     001 (us):    14880514 14880447 14880442
>     002 (us):    0 0 0
>     003 (us):    0 0 0
>     004 (us):    0 0 0
>     005 (us):    0 0 0 (including overflows)
>      Minimum:    0 0 0 (us)
>      Average:    1.000 1.000 1.000 (us)
>      Maximum:    0 0 0 (us)
>      Max-Min:    0 0 0 (us)
> 
> We'd see:
>         Core:    3 4 5
> Counter Freq:    2100 2100 2100 (MHz)
>     001 (us):    12578842 12491108 12578752
>     002 (us):    0 0 0
>     003 (us):    0 0 0
>     004 (us):    0 0 0
>     005 (us):    0 0 0 (including overflows)
>      Minimum:    0.033 0.035 0.035 (us)
>      Average:    1.000 1.000 1.000 (us)
>      Maximum:    0.129 0.153 0.134 (us)
>      Max-Min:    0.095 0.118 0.099 (us)

so core 3 has min 33ns and max 129ns while 1us on average?

Sebastian




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