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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: Mark Morrissey <markem@pdx.edu>
Cc: alexey.roytman@oracle.com, perfbook@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Parallel programming book query
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:45:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181220004525.GZ4170@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGnMLyzE5pjntT4Hz1PZaLKbz-2LSP=ziK60yWyNbwr4=WBdAg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:04:37PM -0800, Mark Morrissey wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I am looking at your parallel programming book, 12/5/2018 version. In
> formula E.6, you use the floor function rather than the ceiling function.
> Is this deliberate or perhaps in error?

Good question!

The intent is that the "+ s - 1" in the numerator does the upwards part
of the rounding, and the floor function does the rest.

Or am I missing something here?  It should be possible to express this
in terms of the ceiling function, though that would be further removed
from C code implementing this equation.

Adding Alexey and the list on CC.  This is on page 423 (PDF page 435) of
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/perfbook/perfbook.2018.12.08a.pdf

							Thanx, Paul


       reply	other threads:[~2018-12-20  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAGnMLyzE5pjntT4Hz1PZaLKbz-2LSP=ziK60yWyNbwr4=WBdAg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-12-20  0:45 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2018-12-20  1:13   ` Parallel programming book query Mark Morrissey
2018-12-20  4:35     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-12-20 16:17       ` Mark Morrissey
2018-12-20 16:56         ` Paul E. McKenney

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