[Cbe-oss-dev] PATCH [0/3] spusched enhancements

[Christoph Hellwig]

Hi Luke,

I like this a lot.  I remember we had some problems with pagefault
handling with this idea, so we might have to look into that again.

More detailed comments later.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:09:02PM -0300, Luke Browning wrote:
> Hi Arnd and Christoph,
> 
> This patchset should significantly improve the performance of the system
> when the SPUs are over committed. I have tested these changes on the
> simulator with good results. I can now run several instances of the
> matrix multiplication testcase at the same time in a few minutes.  
> 
> I haven't tested 'isolated' spu contexts yet.  
> 
> Do you have a testcase for 'isolated' contexts?

I think Jeremy's testsuite now has a testcase for it.