On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:17:49PM +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I guess '... represents a reasonably large system with no fewer
> 448 hardware threads' is a defective sentence, it needs a conj: 'than'.
>
> Sorry for bothering you if I am wrong, because my English is not quite
> good :-)
>
> Thanks
> Zhouyi
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
You are quite right, and thank you for spotting this and for sending the
patch! I wordsmithed the commit log, in part to avoid the age-old debate
as to whether a given use of "than" is a conjunction or a preposition.
You probably had it right, but why take the chance? ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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commit 8fc0705251d3409591edfaf62a4373ffcec5794e
Author: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 18 12:17:49 2021 +0800
cpu: Add 'than' to a defective sentence
The sentence '... represents a reasonably large system with no fewer
448 hardware threads' is missing a "than". This commit adds it.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/cpu/overheads.tex b/cpu/overheads.tex
index 4aeae6cd..28462d49 100644
--- a/cpu/overheads.tex
+++ b/cpu/overheads.tex
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ thousand clock cycles.
\cref{tab:cpu:CPU 0 View of Synchronization Mechanisms on 8-Socket System With Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 CPUs at 2.10GHz}
on
\cpageref{tab:cpu:CPU 0 View of Synchronization Mechanisms on 8-Socket System With Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 CPUs at 2.10GHz}
- represents a reasonably large system with no fewer 448~hardware
+ represents a reasonably large system with no fewer than 448~hardware
threads.
Smaller systems often achieve better latency, as may be seen in
\cref{tab:cpu:Performance of Synchronization Mechanisms on 16-CPU 2.8GHz Intel X5550 (Nehalem) System},
