[bootlin/training-materials updates] master: debugging: slides: Clarify "cache" is the CPU cache (4e71c376)

Luca Ceresoli luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com
Wed Nov 15 18:51:36 CET 2023


Repository : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials
On branch  : master
Link       : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials/commit/4e71c376b2117f5d4159f017ffb9687444cfd832

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commit 4e71c376b2117f5d4159f017ffb9687444cfd832
Author: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 15 18:47:37 2023 +0100

    debugging: slides: Clarify "cache" is the CPU cache
    
    A trainee was not sure whether this is the "cache" mentioned in the output
    of 'free', so let's clarify.
    
    Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com>


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4e71c376b2117f5d4159f017ffb9687444cfd832
 .../debugging-application-profiling.tex                               | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/slides/debugging-application-profiling/debugging-application-profiling.tex b/slides/debugging-application-profiling/debugging-application-profiling.tex
index 62479cb7..8e795278 100644
--- a/slides/debugging-application-profiling/debugging-application-profiling.tex
+++ b/slides/debugging-application-profiling/debugging-application-profiling.tex
@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ Histogram for block sizes:
           hardware resources are used.
     \item Many hardware elements can have an impact on the program execution:
     \begin{itemize}
-      \item Cache performance can be degraded by an application without memory
-            spatial locality.
+      \item CPU cache performance can be degraded by an application without
+        memory spatial locality.
       \item Page miss due to using too much memory without spatial locality.
       \item Alignment faults when doing misaligned accesses.
     \end{itemize}




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