[rtems commit] doc: Add SMP glossary

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Mon May 5 14:24:08 UTC 2014


On 5/5/2014 9:21 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 2014-05-05 16:11, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> A significant portion of this is not SMP specific.
> Which significant portion is not SMP specific?  All terms listed here are 
> important to understand the SMP scheduler.  I want to add a description of the 
> SMP scheduler later and it is important that we have clearly defined terms.  In 
> particular the four states (blocked, ready, scheduled, in the air) are vital.
>
Task, Scheduler, blocked and ready apply to all configurations off the
top of my head.

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