On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:01:45AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Today's pull request consists of minor typo fixes and an update only. > > However, I'm not sure if Patches 6/7 and 7/7 are really the right fixes > or not. > So please have a closer look at them. They look good, thank you! I have pulled this series and pushed it out. > Thanks, Akira > > (Please find a PS. part at the bottom.) > > --------------- > The following changes since commit 82599ee517da15ce3957bc94b82f8702a2357d14: > > memorder: Fix typos and grammar, take two (2021-03-18 17:29:17 -0700) > > are available in the Git repository at: > > https://github.com/akiyks/perfbook.git tags/for-paul-2021.03.19a > > for you to fetch changes up to 0b1692098fb87a4c1d5f2fec9c078ee4462aac85: > > advsync: Use Oxford comma (2021-03-19 22:19:10 +0900) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Akira Yokosawa (7): > memorder: Fix staccato of 'another' > count: Fix typo > count: Move ',' to proper position > toolsoftrade: Fix typo > toolstotrade: Use path of atomic_t.txt under Linux-kernel source tree > advsync: Fix typo > advsync: Use Oxford comma > > advsync/advsync.tex | 4 ++-- > count/count.tex | 6 +++--- > memorder/memorder.tex | 2 +- > toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex | 8 +++++--- > 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > --------------------- > PS. > > Looking at the Glossaries, I thought entries of "Concurrent" > and "Parallel" were missing. > > And you use these words almost interchangeably. > > (In-)distinction of them is the topic of Appendix A.2. > > So maybe it might help readers to put a footnote near the first use > of "parallel" telling that in this book, parallel and concurrent are > used as synonyms, and cite Appendix A.2. > > To make this point even clearer, adding entries like > > Concurrent: In this book, synonym of parallel. > > Parallel: In this book, synonym of concurrent. > > in the Glossaries might help readers. > > Thoughts? Like this? Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/glossary.tex b/glossary.tex index da54482..c6c9c62 100644 --- a/glossary.tex +++ b/glossary.tex @@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ \item[Communication Miss:]\index{Communication miss} A cache miss incurred because some other CPU has written to the cache line since the last time this CPU accessed it. +\item[Concurrent:]\index{Concurrent} + In this book, a synonym of parallel. + Please see \cref{sec:app:questions:What is the Difference Between ``Concurrent'' and ``Parallel''?} + on \cpageref{sec:app:questions:What is the Difference Between ``Concurrent'' and ``Parallel''?} + for a discussion of the recent distinction between these two + terms. \item[Critical Section:]\index{Critical section} A section of code guarded by some synchronization mechanism, so that its execution constrained by that primitive. @@ -348,6 +354,12 @@ directly to the work that must be accomplished. For example, lock acquisition and release is normally considered to be overhead, and specifically to be synchronization overhead. +\item[Parallel:]\index{Parallel} + In this book, a synonym of concurrent. + Please see \cref{sec:app:questions:What is the Difference Between ``Concurrent'' and ``Parallel''?} + on \cpageref{sec:app:questions:What is the Difference Between ``Concurrent'' and ``Parallel''?} + for a discussion of the recent distinction between these two + terms. \item[Performance:]\index{Performance} Rate at which work is done, expressed as work per unit time. If this work is fully serialized, then the performance will
