* @delta is the difference between the current rtt sample and the
* running average srtt. We add 1/8 of that to the srtt in order to
* update the current srtt estimate. The variance estimate is a bit
- * more complicated. We subtract the abs value of the @delta from
- * the current variance estimate and add 1/4 of that to the running
- * total.
+ * more complicated. We subtract the current variance estimate from
+ * the abs value of the @delta and add 1/4 of that to the running
+ * total. That's equivalent to 3/4 of the current variance
+ * estimate plus 1/4 of the abs of @delta.
*
* Note that the index points at the array entry containing the smoothed
* mean value, and the variance is always in the following entry
s64 delta = sample - s->stats[index];
s->stats[index] += (delta >> 3);
index++;
- s->stats[index] += ((abs(delta) - s->stats[index]) >> 2);
+ s->stats[index] += (s64)(abs(delta) - s->stats[index]) >> 2;
}
/**