Introduction Accelerated Critical Sections (ACS) Trade-offs Trade-off #1 Trade-off #2 Trade-off #3 Trade-off #4 Comparison: ACS vs SCMP Conclusion Introduction In the paper, “Accelerating Critical Section Execution with Asymmetric Multi-Core Architectures,” the authors, Suleman, Mutlu, Qureshi, and Patt, essentially concern themselves with the problem popularly revealed in Amdahl’s law, \[ \operatorname{speedup}(N) = \frac{1}{1 - P + \frac{P}{N}}, \] where \(\operatorname{speedup}\) is the total execution time of a single-threaded version of a program divided by the total execution time an \(N\)-threaded implementation of the same program.
