[Cbe-oss-dev] Lifetime of SPE contexts & gangs

[Jeremy Kerr]

Michael,

> I like this idea best .. because I thought of it perhaps :)  Why
> would libspe get confused? Because it remembers the path or
> something?

libspe doesn't use the context paths once the context has been created 
(it uses the *at() syscalls to access the context's files), but I'm not 
entirely sure what assumptions it makes about the presence of contexts 
within a gang when created. A cursory glance would suggest that it 
should be fine though. 

Same goes for the scheduler - I get the impression that the gang system 
is still a work-in-progress, and I'm not sure of the potential effects 
of contexts moving out of gangs after creation. Christoph?

Cheers,


Jeremy