On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 07:15:05AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > On 2016/04/27 09:53:57 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:21:48AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> However, the newly added Table 14.2 "A Variable With More Simultaneous Values" > >> seems like it is not complete yet. Is that the case? > > > > Please see attached for what it looks like to me. > > Well, this is identical to the one I built. > So, do you intend to explicitly put numbers which show up fairly long time, and > leave other cells blank even below changes of values denoted by (n) in italics? The blank cells represent cache misses. The CPU is waiting for a read to complete during that time. A non-blank cell corresponds to a CPU actually completing a read. > >> Looks like you used some custom script or something to generate the table > >> from a raw data that contains when each cpu sees the updates. > >> > >> Do you have a plan to replace the Table with a Figure something like > >> Figure 14.5 "A Variable With Multiple Simultaneous Values"? > > > > I briefly considered coloring the table cells, but got distracted. > > That kind of work would be made easy if you make a script or something to > generate the latex source of the table. The problem is the script itself > might take time to make it work properly. I could be of help in that area. I probably do have something somewhere... No guarantees of finding it... > > I am not sure that making a 14.5-like barchart would be all that > > readable... But please feel free to prove me wrong. > > There would be a number of very narrow bars hard to recognize. > It would also be impossible to see there are fourteen different opinions > at time 20. Yes, a table seems a better way to represent this. Not sure that there is a really good way to represent this, but again, please feel free to prove me wrong! A nicer representation would be a very good thing. Thanx, Paul > >> If you do, I'll refrain from touching the Table. Rather, I'd be interested > >> in improving the script you might be using, if any. > >> > >> Another totally unrelated question is about the URL you placed in > >> Section C.7: "http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/wiz_2637.html";. > >> Sadly, this URL is no longer valid. Do you happen to aware of an alternative > >> URL still accessible today? > > > > This one: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_2637.html > > > >> By looking up a Wikipedia article, I found a page at > >> http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/technology/chip-docs.html, > >> which is "Archived technical documentation library" of Alpha > >> containing links to technical documentation for Alpha microprocessors > >> and Alpha ATX motherboards. Is there a document there which can be > >> referred to instead of the above mentioned URL? > > > > Ah, I see... I blew it and included the URL verbatim in the text. > > It should be replaced with \cite{Compaq01}. > > > > Fixed, with your Reported-by! Thank you! > > Oh, you are most welcome! > Thanks, Akira > > > > Thanx, Paul > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe perfbook" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
