[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 1/6] cell: add per BE structure with info about its SPUs

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Feb 15 08:44:46 EST 2007


On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:04:32PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I guess the logic is ok, but you should not use the term 'isolated' with
> this meaning. An isolated context is using a specific hardware feature,
> and that currently relies on marking the context as SPU_CREATE_NOSCHED.
> You can create nonisolated contexts with that flag and need to treat
> them in the same way, and in the future we might want to be able to
> create isolated contexts that actually _can_ be scheduled, though that
> is a hard problem.

So what about using the term "reserved"?




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