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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 7/17/2017 12:23 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Of course, this all assumes a Gaussian distribution to begin with, if we
> > get bimodal (or worse) distributions we can still get it wrong. To fix
> > that, we'd need to do something better than what we currently have.
> > 
> 
> fwiw some time ago I made a chart for predicted vs actual so you can sort
> of judge the distribution of things visually

Predicted by what?

Thanks,

	tglx