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Message-ID: <20070131122533.5ef22907@localhost>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:25:33 +1100
From: Christian Krafft <parabelboi@...serverein.de>
To: Carl Love <cel@...ibm.com>
Cc: maynardj@...ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
oprofile-list@...ts.sourceforge.net, cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 4/4] Add support to OProfile for
profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:31:09 -0800
Carl Love <cel@...ibm.com> wrote:
> An LFSR sequence is similar to a pseudo random number sequence. For a 24
> bit LFSR sequence each number between 0 and 2^24 will occur once in the
> sequence but not in a normal counting order. The hardware uses the LFSR
> sequence to count to since it is much simpler to implement in hardware
> then a normal counter. Unfortunately, the only way we know how to
> figure out what the LFSR value that corresponds to the number in the
> sequence that is N before the last value (0xFFFFFF) is to calculate the
> previous value N times. It is like trying to ask what is the pseudo
> random number that is N before this pseudo random number?
That should be no problem.
You can just revers your algorithm and let it run x times instead of 0xFFFFFF-x.
>
> I will add a short comment to the code that will summarize the above
> paragraph.
> [snip]
>
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Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen,
kind regards,
Christian Krafft
IBM Systems & Technology Group,
Linux Kernel Development
IT Specialist
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