On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:16:31AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
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> Hi.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0400, Neil Horman (nhorman@tuxdriver.com) wrote:
> > I think what you're looking for here is a simple standard deviation, isn't it?
> > Compute the mean chain legnth, sum the squares of the deviations of each chain
> > and take the square root.  Any individual chain longer than the mean chain
> > length + 1 standard deviation can be considered an 'outlier' and therefore
> > trigger a rebuild of the table for that net namespace.
> > 
> > I full well realize that thats easier said than done, but does that seem about
> > right?  If so, I can start working on trying to build something to accomplish
> > that.
> 
> You are right, but in kernel it may not that simple to get a square
> root... We can probably play with logarithms though.
> 

I don't in truth, need a quare root operation (at least I don't think I do).
I'm abel to compute the variance rather easily, with a walk of the hash table,
then I approximate the square root by use of a for loop in which I square the
iterator and compare it to the variance.  The iterator when squared that is
closest to the variance is taken as my standard deviation.  As mentioned
previously 4*sd should cover almost all of my sample universe, identifying any
remaining outliers as the trigger for a rebuild.

Neil


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