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@@ -122,10 +122,14 @@ only when another task writes some value to the handle.
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Like any other runtime, StarPU has some overhead to manage tasks. Since
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it does smart scheduling and data management, that overhead is not always
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neglectable. The order of magnitude of the overhead is typically a couple of
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-microseconds. The amount of work that a task should do should thus be somewhat
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+microseconds, which is actually quite smaller than the CUDA overhead itself. The
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+amount of work that a task should do should thus be somewhat
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bigger, to make sure that the overhead becomes neglectible. The offline
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performance feedback can provide a measure of task length, which should thus be
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-checked if bad performance are observed.
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+checked if bad performance are observed. To get a grasp at the scalability
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+possibility according to task size, one can run
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+@code{tests/microbenchs/tasks_size_overhead.sh} which draws curves of the
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+speedup of independent tasks of very small sizes.
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@node Task submission
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@section Task submission
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