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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/16] sched: normalize tg load contributions against runnable time
On Fri, Jul 06, 13:52, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This then yields:
>
> P(\Union_{i=1..n} u_i) ~= \Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^(k-1) (n choose k) u^k
>
> Which unfortunately isn't a series I found a sane solution for, but
> numerically (see below) we can see it very quickly approaches 1 when n
> >> 1.

Isn't this series just 1 - (1 - u)^n? So yes, it converges quickly to 1
if u is a probability.

Andre
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