Re: [PATCH 0/2] future: Update Locking and HTM comparison tables

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 12:00:02AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >From d6497dadbc973d7d94591f48730c4c0ce1c129a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 23:40:04 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 0/2] future: Update Locking and HTM comparison tables
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I have tackled the remaining two tables of old style in Section 17.3.
> "Advantage", "Disadvantage", and "Strong Disadvantage" can be indicated
> by background colors, and their structures can be simplified.
> This scheme is inspired by Table 12.4, with using lower saturation
> colors.
> 
> Patch #1 modifies the tables.
> Patch #2 adds a merged table of the two as a sidewaystable.
> 
> Background colors are chosen so that they can be distinguished
> when they are printed in grayscale.
> 
> Thoughts?

Very nice!!!  I very much like the use of colors instead of symbols,
and I say that as someone who is red-green colorblind.  ;-)

I queued both commits and added the commit below.  If you are OK with
the below change, I will push all three.  If not, please let me know
what needs to change.

							Thanx, Paul

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commit 76dacd546e9e1ad1153ef5b3ef6ad0dfd9985246
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 6 08:07:10 2017 -0800

    future/htm: Reword sentence referencing the new Table 17.3
    
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/future/htm.tex b/future/htm.tex
index 6667cd0ce8f0..908166bc0768 100644
--- a/future/htm.tex
+++ b/future/htm.tex
@@ -920,9 +920,11 @@ A summary of the differences between the two tables is as follows:

 \input{future/HTMtableFull}

-For those who want to see the comparison at one view,
+For those with good eyesight,
 Table~\ref{tab:future:Comparison of Locking (Plain and Augmented) and HTM}
-shows the merged comparison.
+combines
+Tables~\ref{tab:future:Comparison of Locking and HTM}
+and~\ref{tab:future:Comparison of Locking (Augmented by RCU or Hazard Pointers) and HTM}.

 Of course, it is also possible to augment HTM,
 as discussed in the next section.