[rtems commit] doc: Add SMP glossary

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Mon May 5 14:36:03 UTC 2014


On 2014-05-05 16:24, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> 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.
>

We can also create a global glossary.

Yes, we also have ready tasks all configurations, but in the SMP chapter it is:

A task is @dfn{ready} if it is allowed to execute, but has no processor
assigned.

Please note the "no processor assigned".

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