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

[Gerhard Stenzel]

Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org> wrote on 05/09/2007 11:43:49 AM:

> > So far, we mainly see this problem, if an application exits without
> > cleaning up properly. So, my preference would be the second option.
>
> All of my proposed options will fix this - is there a particular
> preference for the second?

The third option does something like spe_context_remove_from_gang(), i.e.
removes contexts from a gang. If we want such a functionality, we should
define an API function for it.
I have no preference between first or second option, given that both fix
the missing clean up.

Best regards,

Gerhard Stenzel, Linux on Cell Development, LTC
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