[Cbe-oss-dev] PATCH [0/7] spusched enhancements

Luke Browning lukebr at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 6 02:45:51 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:22 +1100, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi Luke,
> 
> > I am not familiar with the SPU_UTIL_* changes.  When were they
> > posted?
> 
> Looking back at the history, the SPU utilisation code went in with 
> commit 27ec41d3a1d4df2b7cd190e93aad22ab86a72aa1. We haven't introduced 
> any SPUCTX_UTIL_* definitions, only SPU_UTIL_*.

Seems like cvs and mainline uses different names...  I believe SPU_UTIL
was the original name and it was changed to SPUCTX_UTIL.  The latter has
been in cvs for several months.  What do you suggest?

> 
> I assume that we currently have the full spu utilisation statistics, or 
> is there more that need to be pulled over to mainline?
> 
> > Will you integrate this patch set also?
> 
> Sorry, that's what I meant - I'll do the re-rolling to get these 
> applying onto the upstream tree.
> 
> > No.  Maybe, this means patch 3 is not standalone.
> 
> Is there a nice way we can do this without breaking spufs between 
> commits? It's not super-important, but does make it much easier to 
> bisect later.

I can't think of a nice way.  

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Jeremy




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