linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/bloat-o-meter: fix percent change output

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Message-Id: <20160621085942.GA3781@osiris>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:59:42 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/bloat-o-meter: fix percent change output

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 08:00:05AM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> On Tuesday 21 June 2016 01:10 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > commit b21e91c305bc "scripts/bloat-o-meter: print percent change"
> > introduced an additional line to the output of the bloat-a-meter
> > script which shows the percent change. However it uses integer instead
> > of floating point arithmetics.
> >
> > Let's enforce floating point arithmetics to improve the output (note
> > "chg"):
> 
> There's already a (slightly better) patch in flight to same effect:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146598033302242

Ok thanks, then please ignore my patch.