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authorZhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>2023-12-30 08:07:24 +0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2023-12-30 16:23:22 -0800
commita9c41f82c76aee9d994f5fee6640c7b97287d22b (patch)
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parentc051e5946a5b7de107392d5ed12a33e398c121e1 (diff)
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cpu: make Quick Quiz 3.6 more explicit
Rewrite Quick Quiz 3.6 for clarity and explicitness, so that the firsttime reader know that another choice is CPU 0 sharing a core with CPU 1. This change was identified by Chinese version editor Yunjing Li in the course of translating the book to Chinese. Reported-by: Chinese version editor YunJing Li Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou<zhouzhouyi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/cpu/overheads.tex b/cpu/overheads.tex
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--- a/cpu/overheads.tex
+++ b/cpu/overheads.tex
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ CAS and lock, respectively.
\QuickQuiz{
\Cref{tab:cpu:CPU 0 View of Synchronization Mechanisms on 8-Socket System With Intel Xeon Platinum 8176 CPUs at 2.10GHz}
shows CPU~0 sharing a core with CPU~224.
- Shouldn't that instead be CPU~1???
+ However, isn't it more logical for CPU 0
+ to share a core with CPU 1 instead of CPU 224???
}\QuickQuizAnswer{
It is easy to be sympathetic to this view, but the file
\path{/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list}