From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: Junchang Wang <junchangwang@gmail.com>
Cc: perfbook@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu: Fix typos
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 08:39:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181111163924.GT4170@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1541854161-4556-1-git-send-email-junchangwang@gmail.com>
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 08:49:21PM +0800, Junchang Wang wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang <junchangwang@gmail.com>
Applied and soon to be pushed, thank you!
Thanx, Paul
> ---
> Hi Paul,
>
> This is the only patch for Chapter CPU. Please take a look.
>
>
> Thanks,
> --Junchang
>
> --
> cpu/overheads.tex | 4 ++--
> cpu/overview.tex | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cpu/overheads.tex b/cpu/overheads.tex
> index 2474cfe..17b120b 100644
> --- a/cpu/overheads.tex
> +++ b/cpu/overheads.tex
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ displayed in
> Table~\ref{tab:cpu:Performance of Synchronization Mechanisms on 4-CPU 1.8GHz AMD Opteron 844 System}.
> This system's clock period rounds to 0.6\,ns.
> Although it is not unusual for modern microprocessors to be able to
> -retire multiple instructions per clock period, the operations's costs are
> +retire multiple instructions per clock period, the operations' costs are
> nevertheless normalized to a clock period in the third column, labeled
> ``Ratio''.
> The first thing to note about this table is the large values of many of
> @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ It is clear that the combination of speculative execution and cloud
> computing needs more than a bit of rework!
>
> A fifth hardware optimization is large caches, allowing individual
> -CPUs to operate on larger datasets without incuring expensive cache
> +CPUs to operate on larger datasets without incurring expensive cache
> misses.
> Although large caches can degrade energy efficiency and cache-miss
> latency, the ever-growing cache sizes on production microprocessors
> diff --git a/cpu/overview.tex b/cpu/overview.tex
> index 071cf7c..9e91a7b 100644
> --- a/cpu/overview.tex
> +++ b/cpu/overview.tex
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ where the race always goes to the swiftest.
> \ContributedBy{Figure}{fig:cpu:CPU Performance at its Best}{Melissa Broussard}
> \end{figure}
>
> -Although there are a few CPU-bound benchmarks that approach the ideal
> +Although there are a few CPU-bound benchmarks that approach the ideal case
> shown in Figure~\ref{fig:cpu:CPU Performance at its Best},
> the typical program more closely resembles an obstacle course than
> a race track.
> --
> 2.7.4
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-12 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-10 12:49 [PATCH] cpu: Fix typos Junchang Wang
2018-11-10 23:51 ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-11-11 15:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-12 2:25 ` Junchang Wang
2018-11-12 18:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-11-11 16:39 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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