linux-kernel - [PATCH] tcp_cubic: faster cube root

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Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:47:06 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	rkuhn@....physik.tu-muenchen.de, andi@...stfloor.org,
	dada1@...mosbay.com, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tcp_cubic: faster cube root

The Newton-Raphson method is quadratically convergent so
only a small fixed number of steps are necessary.
Therefore it is faster to unroll the loop. Since div64_64 is no longer
inline it won't cause code explosion.

Also fixes a bug that can occur if x^2 was bigger than 32 bits.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>

---
 net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c |   16 +++++-----------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- net-2.6.22.orig/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c	2007-03-06 12:24:34.000000000 -0800
+++ net-2.6.22/net/ipv4/tcp_cubic.c	2007-03-06 14:43:37.000000000 -0800
@@ -96,23 +96,17 @@
  */
 static u32 cubic_root(u64 a)
 {
-	u32 x, x1;
+	u64 x;
 
 	/* Initial estimate is based on:
 	 * cbrt(x) = exp(log(x) / 3)
 	 */
 	x = 1u << (fls64(a)/3);
 
-	/*
-	 * Iteration based on:
-	 *                         2
-	 * x    = ( 2 * x  +  a / x  ) / 3
-	 *  k+1          k         k
-	 */
-	do {
-		x1 = x;
-		x = (2 * x + (uint32_t) div64_64(a, x*x)) / 3;
-	} while (abs(x1 - x) > 1);
+	/* converges to 32 bits in 3 iterations */
+	x = (2 * x + div64_64(a, x*x)) / 3;
+	x = (2 * x + div64_64(a, x*x)) / 3;
+	x = (2 * x + div64_64(a, x*x)) / 3;
 
 	return x;
 }
-
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