From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755149AbYJRBhx (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:37:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752142AbYJRBhn (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:37:43 -0400 Received: from fw.bitband.com ([213.8.50.174]:12655 "EHLO mail.bitband.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750972AbYJRBhn (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:37:43 -0400 Subject: RE: Subject: [PATCH 1/2] linux-acpi: sos documentation From: raz ben yehuda To: pavel@suse.cz Cc: lkml , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:37:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1224293855.3652.36.camel@raz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org First , I really really thank you for replying, This is not the first post I made for sos. For some reason I did not get your reply. On Tue 2008-10-14 01:38:13, raz ben yehuda wrote: > From: Raz Ben Yehuda > > Signed-off-by: Raz Ben Yehuda > --- >>No changelog, useful... Do you mean diffstat ? I added diffstat at the sos-api patch. . Are you referring to Documentation/Changes ? I am not sure I know what you mean. > diff -urpN linux-2.6.27/Documentation/SOS.txt linux-2.6.27-dbg/Documentation/SOS.txt > --- linux-2.6.27/Documentation/SOS.txt 1970-01-01 02:00:00.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6.27-dbg/Documentation/SOS.txt 2008-10-14 00:29:32.000000000 +0200 > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ > + SOS > + > +SOS is a service oriented scheduler. SOS is a method of relating one or more > +distinct services to a processor.In other words, a core(s) is assigned to > +a chore, not a chore to a core. > +Technically speaking, by virtually removing a processor from the operating > +system, using Linux ACPI facility one can bind processors to services. > +SOS management and control is done by sosctl. > +To fully understand what is SOS, when should it be used it and for which > +puprose,please refer to http://sos-linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/sos-linux/sos/Documentation/. > + >>I don't think this should be acpi specific... and you should provide >>real doc, not pointer to web page. 1. I posted to lkml as well as acpi. is this what you mean ? 2. At first, I posted a big text file , but I got zero replies so i thought that maybe people refrain from reading so much. But I will fix it (I read SubmittingPatches). >>Plus select some better acronym. >> Pavel How about ops ( offload-processor scheduler ) ? any other suggestions ? well.. I am bad at names. raz -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html