[Cbe-oss-dev] spu_create.2 man page

Michael Kerrisk mtk.manpages at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 24 17:55:43 EST 2007


Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Michael,
> 
>> I would be a little more vague as we haven't implemented gang
>> scheduling yet... A safer definition might be a group of spu contexts
>> that are functionally related to each other and which share a common
>> scheduling parameters - priority and policy.  In the future, gang
>> scheduling may be added causing the group to be switched in and out
>> as a single unit.
> 
> Yep, Luke's right - we haven't actually implemented the gang scheduling 
> functionality yet. This could either be an addition to the 'BUGS' 
> section, or just an alteration of the text to Luke's definition.

Luke, Jeremy,

Thanks -- I changed the text to be more or less what Luke proposed.

Cheers,

Michael

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