Chapter: Multicore Application Programming For Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris : Identifying Opportunities for Parallelism

Critical Paths

One way of looking at parallelization is by examining the critical paths in the application.

Critical Paths

One way of looking at parallelization is by examining the critical paths in the application. A critical path is the set of steps that determine the minimum time that the task can


complete in. A serial program might complete tasks A, B, C, and D. Not all of the tasks need to have dependencies. B might depend on the results of A, and D might depend on the results of B and C, but C might not depend on any previous results. This kind of data can be displayed on a graph such as the one in Figure 3.24.

 

It is relatively straightforward to identify the critical path in a process once the dependencies and durations have been identified. From this graph, it is apparent that task C could be performed in parallel with tasks A and B. Given timing data, it would be possible to estimate the expected performance of this parallelization strategy.


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