Re: [Caml-list] minithread (was OCaml on Sony PS3)

["David MENTRE" <dmentre@linux-france.org>]

Hello,

2007/12/3, Christophe Raffalli <Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>:
> If you launch one minithread per SPU or CORE with a minor heap of the
> correct size and you fine tune you application to produce not too much
> cache misses, then, I think this simple model could be usefull ????

I might have not completely understood your proposal but it seems to
me that those mini-threads do not solve the issue. In the Cell
architecture, the SPU are *independent* processors. They access the
main memory through DMA like operations and do not have cache. In
other words, for you mini-threads to work on the SPU, you need to fit
the mini-thread s' data, code and environment (e.g. GC) in 256 KB of
memory. As Xavier said, it seems quite difficult if not impossible.

Yours,
david