On Sun, 31 May 2020 09:50:23 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 09:30:44AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> This is misc updates in response to your recent updates.
>>
>> Patch 1/3 treats QQZ annotations for "nq" build.
>
> Good reminder, thank you!
>
>> Patch 2/3 adds a paragraph in #9 of FAQ.txt. The wording may need
>> your retouch for fluency.
>> Patch 3/3 is an independent improvement of runlatex.sh. It will avoid
>> a few redundant runs of pdflatex when you have some typo in labels/refs.
>
> Nice, queued and pushed, thank you!
>
>> Another suggestion to Figures 9.25 and 9.29.
>> Wouldn't these graphs look better with log scale x-axis?
>>
>> X range can be 0.001 -- 10.
>>
>> You'll need to add a few data points in sub-microsecond critical-section
>> duration to show plausible shapes in those regions, though.
>
> I took a quick look and didn't find any nanosecond delay primitives
> in the Linux kernel, but yes, that would be nicer looking.
>
> I don't expect to make further progress on this particular graph
> in the immediate future, but if you know of such a delay primitive,
> please don't keep it a secret! ;-)
I find ndelay() defined in include/asm_generic/delay.h.
I'm not sure if it works as you would expect, though.
Thanks, Akira
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> Thanks, Akira
>> --
>> Akira Yokosawa (3):
>> defer: Annotate consecutive QQZs as such for 'nq' build
>> FAQ.txt: Advertise 'nq' build in #9
>> runlatex.sh: Give up early on undefined refs
>>
>> FAQ.txt | 8 ++++++--
>> defer/rcuusage.tex | 20 +++++++++++---------
>> utilities/runlatex.sh | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>> 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
