Please help...Parallel exec. time is coming more than sequential one.

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I am coding in c#.net 4.0 for my project on parallelism.
After coding I came across a problem that parallel exec. time is coming more than sequential one.

'x' and 'y' are global arrays variables.

C#

	Program object1= new Program();
	Program object2= new Program();

/****SEQUENTIAL*****/
	object1.func1(x);
	object1.func2(x);
	object1.func3(x);
	object1.func4(x);

	object2.func1(y);
	object2.func2(y);
	object2.func3(y);
	object2.func4(y);
/****SEQUENTIAL*****/

/****PARALLEL******/
            Parallel.Invoke(
                () =>
                {
	object1.func1(x);
	object1.func2(x);
	object1.func3(x);
	object1.func4(x);
                },
                () =>
                {
	object2.func1(y);
	object2.func2(y);
	object2.func3(y);
	object2.func4(y);
                });
/****PARALLEL******/

The problem may be of false sharing, but I if two different copies of variables through objects are being used, then there should not be a problem of false sharing..! I don't know exactly what is the problem actually. Please help.

Posted 18-Mar-12 7:45am

Ratika Agarwal

Updated 18-Mar-12 22:16pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-03-18T09:11:00

Solution 1

Parallel does not mean that things happen at the same time. All it means is that operations can occur in separate threads, which may (or may not) run on separate cores. This assumes that there are free cores to run the threads, or all that happens is that the extra overhead of establishing the thread and managing the threads, means that the total operation takes longer. It also depends on the processing involved, and how inter-related the data is.

It is very easy to slow things down, just by trying to speed them up...

Posted 18-Mar-12 9:11am

OriginalGriff

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Ratika Agarwal 19-Mar-12 0:31am

My system is dual core. And I am invoking operations for exactly two cores, as given in the code. Also there is no communication overhead. Then what is the problem.

OriginalGriff 19-Mar-12 4:33am

Just because you have two cores, does not mean that they are both free to run your threads - There are lo=ads of things going on at the same time. There is always overhead - just the work involved in creating the thread means memory allocation, priority allocation, list insertion, etc., etc., etc. There is yet more work involved in scheduling, starting, stoping, switching, and so forth the various threads that are running, including yours!

Ratika Agarwal 19-Mar-12 9:01am

thanks.