Signed-off-by: Alan Huang <mmpgouride@xxxxxxxxx>
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SMPdesign/criteria.tex | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/SMPdesign/criteria.tex b/SMPdesign/criteria.tex
index d3d84506..bc4d3a77 100644
--- a/SMPdesign/criteria.tex
+++ b/SMPdesign/criteria.tex
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ parallel program.
The larger the gap between the number of CPUs
and the actual speedup, the less efficiently the
CPUs will be used.
- Similarly, the greater the desired efficiency, the smaller
+ Similarly, the greater the desired efficiency, the bigger
the achievable speedup.
\item If the available synchronization primitives have
high overhead compared to the critical sections
@@ -157,11 +157,6 @@ parallel program.
using asymmetric primitives
(see \cref{chp:Deferred Processing}),
or by using a coarse-grained design such as \IXh{code}{locking}.
-\item If the critical sections have high overhead compared
- to the primitives guarding them, the best way
- to improve speedup is to increase parallelism
- by moving to reader/writer locking, \IXh{data}{locking}, asymmetric,
- or data ownership.
\item If the critical sections have high overhead compared
to the primitives guarding them and the data structure
being guarded is read much more often than modified,
--
2.34.1
