McKenney: Parallel Programming: June 2023 Update

[Posted June 13, 2023 by corbet]

Paul McKenney has announced a new version of his book Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?.

This release contains a new section on thermal throttling (along with a new cartoon), improvements to the memory-ordering chapter (including intuitive subsets of the Linux-kernel memory model), fixes to the deferred-processing chapter, additional clocksource-deviation material to the "What Time Is It?" section, and numerous fixes inspired by questions and comments from readers.

McKenney: Parallel Programming: June 2023 Update

Posted Jun 13, 2023 20:02 UTC (Tue) by dankamongmen (subscriber, #35141) [Link] (1 responses)

this was a tremendous book when i read it two years back, and i bet any new material is well worth another going-over. thanks, paul!

McKenney: Parallel Programming: June 2023 Update

Posted Jun 14, 2023 17:01 UTC (Wed) by PaulMcKenney (✭ supporter ✭, #9624) [Link]

Glad you like it, thank you!

McKenney: Parallel Programming: June 2023 Update

Posted Jun 14, 2023 19:13 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (1 responses)

Reading this kind of literature I'm always reminded of a quote I heard from someone: "parallel anything is trivial if you are selfish. It is sharing and agreeing what is hard".

McKenney: Parallel Programming: June 2023 Update

Posted Jun 15, 2023 16:08 UTC (Thu) by PaulMcKenney (✭ supporter ✭, #9624) [Link]

Indeed, running multiple copies of a sequential program in parallel is quite easy and works very well!