Re: [GIT PULL v2 -perfbook] PoC of adding index to perfbook

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 07:43:59AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:29:47 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:21:44AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:29:58 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:15:42 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:14:05AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Paul,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So this *not-pull* request is to show you my WIP branch to add indices
> >>>>> to perfbook.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patch 1/7 kicks of the changes by adding index annotations in Glossary.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patch 2/7 reorganizes back matter of perfbook. Glossary, Bibliography,
> >>>>> Credits, and the newly added Index belong there.
> >>>>> I employed "tocbibind" package to include Bibliography in TOC.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patch 3/7 adds API Index. Annotations for the Index is mostly done in
> >>>>> toolsoftrade.
> >>>>> You can see that raw \index or \sindex macros are avoided in .tex source
> >>>>> files.  Using custom macros for annotation can reduce diffs in adding
> >>>>> annotations.
> >>>>> glossary.tex is an exception, as every description item has
> >>>>> \index{} on it.  If we add other annotations there, we need to use
> >>>>> custom macros.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patch 4/7 adds annotations for people's names. They could be in another
> >>>>> independent index, but they are merged into the general index.
> >>>>> As a result, the ratio of people's names in the index is quite high at the
> >>>>> moment.
> >>>>> It will decrease as we add annotations for general terms/words.
> >>>>> Names are presented in the index in the form of "surname, forename" order.
> >>>>> To enable this, annotation is done by \ppl{forename}{surname}.
> >>>>> When you need only surname in the text, use \pplsur macro instead.
> >>>>> For names with abbreviated middle name, there is a \pplmdl command as
> >>>>> well.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patch 5/7 highlights indexed words/terms/names in the text.
> >>>>> This should help us in finding out what needs to be annotated.
> >>>>> If the color of DarkGreen is problematic for you, please let me know
> >>>>> which color is easy for you.
> >>>>> One of the purpose of avoiding raw \index{} macros for annotation is
> >>>>> to realize this coloring.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patch 6/7 adds a few more annotations of people's names in "formal".
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patch 7/7 changes the layout of index from default 2 columns to 3 columns.
> >>>>> As mentioned in the change log, API Index shows a minor glitches of
> >>>>> extraneous line folding caused by the side effect of \co{} macro.
> >>>>> This issue has been fixed in the most recent LaTeX released on 2020-10-01.
> >>>>> I have not figured out if there is some workaround for older LaTeX.
> >>>>
> >>>> Nice start!
> >>>>
> >>>> This is in the "lt" flavor only, correct?  
> >>>
> >>> Oh, why did I miss the most important to share?
> >>> I added a new target "ix" and its derivative "1cix" in patch 1/7.
> >>> These make targets enable coloring of indexed words/names/APIs added in
> >>> patch 5/7.  I'm not sure the color choice works with your eyes, though.
> >>>
> >>>>                                           The default "make" generates
> >>>> the perfbook.ind file, but does not include it.  But "make lt" doesn't
> >>>> either.  Trying again setting the "toindex" boolean to "true", which does
> >>>> in fact generate a pair of three-column indexes at the end, very good!
> >>>>
> >>>>> The appearance of index pages does not matter so much at the moment,
> >>>>> I suppose.  We need to add annotations first.
> >>>>
> >>>> Agreed, the annotations will be a big job.  I have a small patch
> >>>> at the end for minor typos as well.
> >>>
> >>> I thought I made quite a few typos.  Thanks for catching them.
> >>> I'll merge it to patch 1/7.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> To do that, we need to agree the organization of index pages.
> >>>>> Current indices are flat.
> >>>>> LaTeX indexing framework supports up to 3 levels of hierarchy.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For example:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Flat index
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     Critical section, <page>
> >>>>>     ...
> >>>>>     Read-side critical section, <page>
> >>>>>     ...
> >>>>>     Write-side critical section, <page>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2 level index
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     Critical section, <page>
> >>>>>         read-side, <page>
> >>>>>         write-size, <page>
> >>>>>     ...
> >>>>>     Read-side critical section, see Critical section, read-side
> >>>>>     ...
> >>>>>     Write-side critical section, see Critical section, write-side
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Which do you prefer?
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a minor preference for the 2-level index.  However, it might or
> >>>> might not be worth it.  For example, should "Associativity" be on its own,
> >>>> or under "Cache"?  Or in both places?
> >>>
> >>> We will need some experiments.
> >>> Let me play with terms in glossary.tex.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Another point on people's names.
> >>>>> I'm *not* thinking of making index of authors of Bibliography.
> >>>>> Due to the amount of cited material, it will require a ton of cleanups
> >>>>> in .bib files if you want the author index to look consistent.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Which means, you need to mention names of authors who you want to see
> >>>>> in the index.  Does this sound reasonable to you?
> >>>>
> >>>> That makes a lot of sense!
> >>>
> >>> OK.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I know you are debugging/analyzing/testing RCU and lockdep interaction
> >>>>> right now.
> >>>>
> >>>> But sometimes one must take a break.  And I am hoping to make more
> >>>> progress on updating the last few graphs this week.  It turns out that
> >>>> there are interesting interactions between userspace RCU's call_rcu()
> >>>> worker threads and jemalloc(), for example.  The surprise, especially to
> >>>> the jemalloc() folks is that jemalloc() doesn't help much, even if the
> >>>> call_rcu() worker threads to a throw-away allocation to help jemalloc()
> >>>> realize that it must create caches for those worker threads.
> >>>>
> >>>> It is possible that this is a consequence of the fact that the bottleneck
> >>>> for large RCU-protected hash tables is in the L3 cache rather than in
> >>>> any particular CPU.  Which is an unexpected benefit, as this situation
> >>>> clearly calls attention to the possibility of this type of bottleneck.
> >>>>
> >>>> Not so good for second-edition schedule, though!
> >>>
> >>> ;-) ;-)
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm not in a hurry and looking forward to your feedback.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am going to list a few additional index entries: CPU, memory, I/O,
> >>>> multicore, synchronization, cache hit, Moore's Law free lunch, speed of
> >>>> light, 3D integration, accelerators, CAS, socket, core, thread (hardware
> >>>> and software), simultaneous multithreading, hyperthreading, interconnect,
> >>>> interrupt (expansion of IRQ?), inter-processor interrupt (expansion of
> >>>> IPI?), locality of reference (spatial and temporal), cache prefetching,
> >>>> cache alignment, cache ways, read-mostly replication, partitioning,
> >>>> out-of-order execution, super-scalar CPU, hardware transactional memory,
> >>>> software transactional memory, hazard pointers, reference counters,
> >>>> lockless, the various counter algorithms, object oriented, object oriented
> >>>> spaghetti code, stall (for example, pipeline stall due to a cache miss),
> >>>> double-ended queue, maze (or maze solving), branch prediction, atomic
> >>>> instructions, atomic read-modify-write instructions, memory barrier,
> >>>> distributed-system parallelism (as opposed to shared-memory parallelism),
> >>>> communications miss (of caches), herd (the LKMM tool), coherence order,
> >>>> reads-from, from-reads, Nidhugg, Promela (and spin?), Linux kernel,
> >>>> and much more, but that is enough for now.
> >>>
> >>> If you want to do it on your own, why not merge the next pull request
> >>> which will address textwidth of 1c-layout index pages?
> >>>
> >>> It should be safe as indexing is not enabled in existing make targets.
> >>
> >> So please find v2 of the pull request bellow.
> >>
> >> It has typo fixes applied in patch 1/7 (now 1/11).
> >> Additional 4 patches addresses the width of 1c layout index pages.
> >> In doing so, I removed all of those margin settings by magic numbers.
> >>
> >> Patch 8/11 fixes the 1c geometry settings for index pages.
> >> Patch 9/11 removes remaining magical margin settings.
> >> Patch 10/11 removes sed patterns substituting options to the \documentclass{}
> >> command at the top of perfbook-lt.tex.  The geometry package overrides
> >> these options afterwords in the preamble.
> >> Patch 11/11 adds new make targets in synctex-forward.sh to accept "ix" and
> >> "1cix" targets.
> > 
> > I have pulled these in and pushed them under branch akiyks.2020.11.24a,
> > thank you!  However, given that they do not seem to affect the old
> > make targets, I am not seeing much reason not to merge them into the
> > master branch.  Any reasons not to?
> 
> No, I think merging into master should be safe.
> 
> There might be other typos I introduced in the branch which affects
> old targets, but we can fix them later, if any.

Very good, I have merged them and pushed out the result, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

>         Thanks, Akira
> 
> > 
> > 							Thanx, Paul
> > 
> >>         Thanks, Akira
> >>
> >> --
> >> The following changes since commit 810da77e1c66ad543e34a10b197aa9e629c7dc8f:
> >>
> >>   CodeSamples/formal: Use '{}' for empty init blocks in litmus tests (2020-11-15 12:38:36 -0800)
> >>
> >> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>
> >>   https://github.com/akiyks/perfbook.git tags/for-paul-2020.11.24a
> >>
> >> for you to fetch changes up to d4acd14416f6a96591cd5cf6733155064acee44b:
> >>
> >>   synctex-forward: Add new targets in target list (2020-11-24 23:48:31 +0900)
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Akira Yokosawa (11):
> >>       PoC of indexing
> >>       Reorganize backmatters
> >>       PoC of additional API Index
> >>       index: Add annotations to people's names for PoC
> >>       Color indexed text conditionally
> >>       index: Add some more people index annotations in 'formal'
> >>       index: Trial of 3 column
> >>       Use wider layout for Index in 1c build
> >>       Delegate geometry settings to 'geometry' package
> >>       Makefile: Remove sed patterns to substitute paper and column setting
> >>       synctex-forward: Add new targets in target list
> >>
> >>  .gitignore                      |   3 +
> >>  Makefile                        |  15 +-
> >>  SMPdesign/SMPdesign.tex         |   2 +-
> >>  SMPdesign/partexercises.tex     |   5 +-
> >>  appendix/ack/ack.tex => ack.tex |   6 +-
> >>  appendix/appendix.tex           |  20 --
> >>  count/count.tex                 |   2 +-
> >>  cpu/cpu.tex                     |   3 +-
> >>  cpu/hwfreelunch.tex             |   6 +-
> >>  cpu/overview.tex                |   4 +-
> >>  datastruct/datastruct.tex       |   4 +-
> >>  debugging/debugging.tex         |   5 +-
> >>  defer/rcurelated.tex            |  92 +++++----
> >>  defer/rcuusage.tex              |   3 +-
> >>  formal/axiomatic.tex            |   4 +-
> >>  formal/ppcmem.tex               |   7 +-
> >>  formal/spinhint.tex             |   2 +-
> >>  future/cpu.tex                  |  12 +-
> >>  future/tm.tex                   |   2 +-
> >>  glossary.tex                    | 112 +++++------
> >>  howto/howto.tex                 |  37 ++--
> >>  intro/intro.tex                 |   8 +-
> >>  memorder/memorder.tex           |   6 +-
> >>  perfbook-lt.tex                 | 143 ++++++++++----
> >>  toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex   | 420 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> >>  utilities/runlatex.sh           |   2 +
> >>  utilities/synctex-forward.sh    |   6 +-
> >>  27 files changed, 510 insertions(+), 421 deletions(-)
> >>  rename appendix/ack/ack.tex => ack.tex (98%)
> >> --
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Should the index expand acronyms?  Hennessy and Patterson do for some
> >>>> acronyms but not others, so we can justify being inconsistent if we
> >>>> would like.
> >>>
> >>> I guess index entries will keep somewhat inconsistent in any way.
> >>> Keeping them consistent will require huge effort.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> You might argue that some of these need glossary entries, and you
> >>>> would be quite right.  ;-)
> >>>
> >>> ;-)
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> In other news, I am considering bringing back the quantum-computing
> >>>> section given that things seem to have stabilized a bit.  But it is
> >>>> still a bit off-topic.
> >>>>
> >>>> Again, great start on the index!
> >>>
> >>> Glad to know you liked it!
> >>>
> >>>         Thanks, Akira
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 							Thanx, Paul
> >>>>
> >>>>>         Thanks, Akira
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> The following changes since commit 810da77e1c66ad543e34a10b197aa9e629c7dc8f:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   CodeSamples/formal: Use '{}' for empty init blocks in litmus tests (2020-11-15 12:38:36 -0800)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   https://github.com/akiyks/perfbook.git tags/for-paul-not-pull-2020.11.23a
> >>>>>
> >>>>> for you to fetch changes up to 9cecce4c32c9ff97f3330591d0699c8aa7e2585b:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   index: Trial of 3 column (2020-11-22 23:16:58 +0900)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>> Akira Yokosawa (7):
> >>>>>       PoC of indexing
> >>>>>       Reorganize backmatters
> >>>>>       PoC of additional API Index
> >>>>>       index: Add annotations to people's names for PoC
> >>>>>       Color indexed text conditionally
> >>>>>       index: Add some more people index annotations in 'formal'
> >>>>>       index: Trial of 3 column
> >>>>>
> >>>>>  .gitignore                      |   3 +
> >>>>>  Makefile                        |  10 +-
> >>>>>  SMPdesign/SMPdesign.tex         |   2 +-
> >>>>>  SMPdesign/partexercises.tex     |   5 +-
> >>>>>  appendix/ack/ack.tex => ack.tex |   6 +-
> >>>>>  appendix/appendix.tex           |  20 --
> >>>>>  count/count.tex                 |   2 +-
> >>>>>  cpu/cpu.tex                     |   3 +-
> >>>>>  cpu/hwfreelunch.tex             |   6 +-
> >>>>>  cpu/overview.tex                |   4 +-
> >>>>>  datastruct/datastruct.tex       |   4 +-
> >>>>>  debugging/debugging.tex         |   5 +-
> >>>>>  defer/rcurelated.tex            |  92 +++++----
> >>>>>  defer/rcuusage.tex              |   3 +-
> >>>>>  formal/axiomatic.tex            |   4 +-
> >>>>>  formal/ppcmem.tex               |   7 +-
> >>>>>  formal/spinhint.tex             |   2 +-
> >>>>>  future/cpu.tex                  |  12 +-
> >>>>>  future/tm.tex                   |   2 +-
> >>>>>  glossary.tex                    | 112 +++++------
> >>>>>  howto/howto.tex                 |  37 ++--
> >>>>>  intro/intro.tex                 |   8 +-
> >>>>>  memorder/memorder.tex           |   6 +-
> >>>>>  perfbook-lt.tex                 |  75 ++++++-
> >>>>>  toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex   | 420 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> >>>>>  utilities/runlatex.sh           |   2 +
> >>>>>  26 files changed, 470 insertions(+), 382 deletions(-)
> >>>>>  rename appendix/ack/ack.tex => ack.tex (98%)
> >>
> >>
> >>



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