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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:15:12 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, adobriyan@...il.com,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Aneesh Kumar KV <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Subject: Re: VolanoMark regression with 2.6.27-rc1


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> Ok, people pointed out I got my promotion rules mixed up, I casted the 
> result of the division to signed, instead of ending up with a signed 
> division.
> 
> #define avg(x, y) ({                            \
>         typeof(x) _avg1 = (x);                  \
>         typeof(y) _avg2 = (y);                  \
>         (void) (&_avg1 == &_avg2);              \
>         (typeof(x))(_avg1 + ((long long)_avg2 - _avg1)/2); })

ok, could you please just send a patch that is local to sched.c and then 
we can let this kernel.h change play out independently? There's too many 
iterations of this and it's better to decouple the two.

	Ingo
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