perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:36:12 +0000 (15:36 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:33:07 +0000 (16:33 +0200)
The current noise computation does:

 \Sum abs(n_i - avg(n)) * N^-1.5

Which is (afaik) not a regular noise function, and needs the
complete sample set available to post-process.

Change this to use a regular stddev computation which can be
done by keeping a two sums:

 stddev = sqrt( 1/N (\Sum n_i^2) - avg(n)^2 )

For which we only need to keep \Sum n_i and \Sum n_i^2.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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