On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:29:24AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Not-signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi Paul,
>
> This is a reminder in sent as a patch.
>
> I find the indexing tag you put to "Non-Blocking" looks strange.
> This entry talks about some classes of forward-progress guarantees,
> not much about synchronization.
> Also, the existing tags of NBS are \IXacr{}. You therefore
> need to use \glsuseriii{nbs} as shown below in a separate entry
> of "Non-Blocking Synchronization (NBS)".
>
> I think NBS deserves its own entry in the Glossary.
>
> Thanks, Akira
>
> --
> glossary.tex | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/glossary.tex b/glossary.tex
> index 86d9a025..4ea87f60 100644
> --- a/glossary.tex
> +++ b/glossary.tex
> @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
> These are used for hardware-specific purposes such as profiling.
> The advantage of using NMIs for profiling is that it allows you
> to profile code that runs with interrupts disabled.
> -\item[\IXGaltr{Non-Blocking}{Non-blocking synchronization (NBS)}:]
> +\item[\IXG{Non-Blocking}:]
> A group of academic forward-progress guarantees that includes
> bounded population-oblivious wait free,
> bounded wait free,
> @@ -437,6 +437,8 @@
> deadlock free.
> See \cref{sec:advsync:Non-Blocking Synchronization}
> for more information.
> +\item[Non-Blocking Synchronization (NBS):]\glsuseriii{nbs}
> + %@@@ Need expansion @@@
> \item[NUCA:]\glsuseriii{nuca}
> Non-uniform cache architecture, where groups of CPUs share
> caches and/or store buffers.
Good points!
How about like this?
Thanx, Paul
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commit a8152ff934df7cfaccb8bdc1fa376c5d11737995
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 21 16:11:09 2022 -0800
glossary: Update non-blocking and add NBS
Took index-addition commands from Akira's email dated January 20.
Suggested-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/glossary.tex b/glossary.tex
index 86d9a025..1d4a2404 100644
--- a/glossary.tex
+++ b/glossary.tex
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
These are used for hardware-specific purposes such as profiling.
The advantage of using NMIs for profiling is that it allows you
to profile code that runs with interrupts disabled.
-\item[\IXGaltr{Non-Blocking}{Non-blocking synchronization (NBS)}:]
+\item[\IXG{Non-Blocking}:]
A group of academic forward-progress guarantees that includes
bounded population-oblivious wait free,
bounded wait free,
@@ -437,6 +437,13 @@
deadlock free.
See \cref{sec:advsync:Non-Blocking Synchronization}
for more information.
+\item[Non-Blocking Synchronization (NBS):]\glsuseriii{nbs}
+ The use of algorithms, mechanisms, or techniques that provide
+ non-blocking forward-progress guarantees.
+ NBS is often used in a more restrictive sense of providing one
+ of the stronger forward-progress guarantee, usually wait free or
+ lock free, but sometimes also obstruction free.
+ (See ``Non-blocking''.)
\item[NUCA:]\glsuseriii{nuca}
Non-uniform cache architecture, where groups of CPUs share
caches and/or store buffers.
