>From 557aa593d97bf2b8cc47ff14fbcaf3f80703866a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 23:39:57 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] count: Fix typo in Answer to Quick Quiz 5.27 Reported-by: Junchang Wang <junchangwang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Junchang Wang <junchangwang@xxxxxxxxx> --- count/count.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/count/count.tex b/count/count.tex index cc47554..096b53d 100644 --- a/count/count.tex +++ b/count/count.tex @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ machine. \QuickQuizAnswer{ One approach would be to maintain a global approximation to the value. - Readers would increment their per-thread variable, but when it + Updaters would increment their per-thread variable, but when it reached some predefined limit, atomically add it to a global variable, then zero their per-thread variable. This would permit a tradeoff between average increment overhead -- 2.7.4 -- 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