[Cbe-oss-dev] PATCH [4/7] decouple spu scheduler from spufs_spu_run [asynchronous scheduling]

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 04:27:34PM -0200, Luke Browning wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 15:37 -0200, Luke Browning wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think all we need to do is change the order of the patches to avoid
> > this deadlock.  "Patch [7/7] fix timeslicing" can be dropped ahead of
> > "Patch [4/7] decouple spu scheduler ...".  This provides a more elegant
> > solution IMO.
> > 
> 
> Well, I take that back.  My comment is more conceptual in nature. The
> solution that I applied in patch 7 is better..., but you can't just
> apply 7 ahead of 4.  We could probably push part of the solution from
> patch 7 into 4, but I am not sure it is worth it to have standalone
> functioning patches.  What do you think?  

Your patch 7 seems to be missing in Jeremy's spufs experimental tree
into which he forward-ported the other patches.  I'll forward port nr 7
and I'll try to split up in a logical way.