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[83.233.90.46]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s193sm775409lfe.29.2016.02.18.00.06.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 18 Feb 2016 00:06:57 -0800 (PST) From: Christophe Milard To: mike.holmes@linaro.org, bill.fischofer@linaro.org Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:06:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1455782806-4787-2-git-send-email-christophe.milard@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 In-Reply-To: <1455782806-4787-1-git-send-email-christophe.milard@linaro.org> References: <1455782806-4787-1-git-send-email-christophe.milard@linaro.org> X-Topics: patch Cc: lng-odp@lists.linaro.org Subject: [lng-odp] [PATCHv2 1/4] doc: glossary: defining ODP thread more precisely X-BeenThere: lng-odp@lists.linaro.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: "The OpenDataPlane \(ODP\) List" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: lng-odp-bounces@lists.linaro.org Sender: "lng-odp" Signed-off-by: Christophe Milard Reviewed-and-tested-by: Bill Fischofer --- doc/glossary.adoc | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/glossary.adoc b/doc/glossary.adoc index 8e514ee..becaf16 100644 --- a/doc/glossary.adoc +++ b/doc/glossary.adoc @@ -9,9 +9,17 @@ control thread:: A control thread is a type of ODP thread. It will be isolated from the host operating system house keeping tasks but will be scheduled by it and may receive interrupts. +ODP instantiation process:: + The first process which is started when an ODP application is started. + There is one single such process per ODP instantiation. thread:: - An ODP thread is a flow of execution that in a Linux environment could be - a Linux process or thread. + the word thread (without any further specification) refers to an ODP + thread. +ODP thread:: + An ODP thread is a flow of execution that belongs to ODP. In a Linux + environment an ODP thread can be either a Linux process or a linux thread. + In both cases, a linux process (or thread) is said to be an ODP thread if + its PID is a descendant of the ODP instantiation process. event:: An event is a notification that can be placed in a queue. queue::