From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Subject: Re: [RFT v2 1/3] random: add rte_rand_float()
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 08:47:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220525084723.30d6a6f3@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <589158f3-e42a-8e10-c5ad-5b05b4e6db04@ericsson.com>
On Wed, 25 May 2022 14:45:37 +0000
Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com> wrote:
> I would call it something else than "float", in particular since it
> doesn't return "float" but a "double" type floating point value.
>
> rte_drand() maybe? Short, but might be confused with rte_rand(), given
> the visual similarity. I still I would still prefer that over
> rte_rand_double().
The corresponding standard library routine is drand48().
With that convention it would be rte_drand().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-25 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-24 18:46 [RFT 0/2] pie: floating point fixes Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-24 18:46 ` [RFT 1/2] rte_pie: remove unnecessary floating point Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-24 18:46 ` [RFT 2/2] rte_pie: fix incorrect floating point math Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-24 19:31 ` [RFT 0/2] pie: floating point fixes Morten Brørup
2022-05-24 22:18 ` [RFT v2 0/3] pie: fix random number issues Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-24 22:18 ` [RFT v2 1/3] random: add rte_rand_float() Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 11:55 ` Ray Kinsella
2022-05-25 14:45 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2022-05-25 15:26 ` Morten Brørup
2022-05-25 15:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 15:47 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-05-24 22:18 ` [RFT v2 2/3] rte_pie: remove unnecessary floating point Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-24 22:18 ` [RFT v2 3/3] rte_pie: fix incorrect floating point math Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] introduce random floating point function Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] random: add rte_drand() funciton Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] rte_pie: remove unnecessary floating point Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 17:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] rte_pie: fix incorrect floating point math Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 20:31 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] introduce random floating point function Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 20:31 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] random: add rte_drand() function Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 9:56 ` Ray Kinsella
2022-05-26 13:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2022-05-26 15:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 15:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 20:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 20:31 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] rte_pie: remove unnecessary floating point Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-25 20:31 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] rte_pie: fix incorrect floating point math Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 7:06 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] introduce random floating point function Morten Brørup
2022-05-26 20:26 ` [PATCH v5 " Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 20:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] random: add rte_drand() function Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 20:26 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] rte_pie: remove unnecessary floating point Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-30 11:50 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2022-06-21 8:18 ` Singh, Jasvinder
2022-05-26 20:26 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] rte_pie: fix incorrect floating point math Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-30 11:50 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2022-06-21 8:18 ` Singh, Jasvinder
2022-06-22 9:21 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] introduce random floating point function Thomas Monjalon
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