Changeset b9537e6 for doc/theses/thierry_delisle_PhD/thesis/glossary.tex

Timestamp:

Oct 30, 2020, 12:35:59 PM (6 years ago)

Author:

Thierry Delisle <tdelisle@…>

Branches:

ADT, arm-eh, ast-experimental, enum, forall-pointer-decay, jacob/cs343-translation, master, new-ast-unique-expr, pthread-emulation, qualifiedEnum, stuck-waitfor-destruct

Children:

f7e4f8e8

Parents:

223a633

Message:

A whole bunch of thesis work and existing work

File:

• doc/theses/thierry_delisle_PhD/thesis/glossary.tex (modified) (3 diffs)

doc/theses/thierry_delisle_PhD/thesis/glossary.tex

@@ -1 +1 @@
 \makeglossaries
+
+% ----------------------------------
+% Acronyms
+\newacronym{api}{API}{Application Programming Interface}
+\newacronym{fifo}{FIFO}{First-In, First-Out}
+\newacronym{io}{I/O}{Input and Output}
+\newacronym{numa}{NUMA}{Non-Uniform Memory Access}
+\newacronym{raii}{RAII}{Resource Acquisition Is Initialization}
+\newacronym{tls}{TLS}{Thread Local Storage}
+
+% ----------------------------------
+% Definitions
+
+\longnewglossaryentry{thrd}
+{name={thread}}
+{
+Threads created and managed inside user-space. Each thread has its own stack and its own thread of execution. User-level threads are invisible to the underlying operating system.
+
+\textit{Synonyms : User threads, Lightweight threads, Green threads, Virtual threads, Tasks.}
+}
+
+\longnewglossaryentry{proc}
+{name={processor}}
+{
+
+}
+
+\longnewglossaryentry{rQ}
+{name={ready-queue}}
+{
+
+}
+
+\longnewglossaryentry{uthrding}
+{name={user-level threading}}
+{
+
+
+\textit{Synonyms : User threads, Lightweight threads, Green threads, Virtual threads, Tasks.}
+}
+
+% ----------------------------------
 
 \longnewglossaryentry{hthrd}
 {name={hardware thread}}
 {
-Threads representing the underlying hardware directly.
+Threads representing the underlying hardware directly, \eg the CPU core, or hyper-thread if the hardware supports multiple threads of execution per core. The number of hardware threads is considered to be always fixed to a specific number determined by the hardware.
 
-\textit{Synonyms : User threads, Lightweight threads, Green threads, Virtual threads, Tasks.}
-}
-
-\longnewglossaryentry{thrd}
-{name={threads}}
-{
-Threads created and managed inside user-space. Each thread has its own stack and its own thread of execution. User-level threads are invisible to the underlying operating system.
-
-\textit{Synonyms : User threads, Lightweight threads, Green threads, Virtual threads, Tasks.}
+\textit{Synonyms : }
 }
 
@@ -57 +91 @@
 }
 
-\longnewglossaryentry{proc}
-{name={virtual processor}}
-{
 
-}
-
-\longnewglossaryentry{Q}
-{name={work-queue}}
-{
-
-}
 
 \longnewglossaryentry{at}
@@ -131 +155 @@
 }
 
-
-\newacronym{tls}{TLS}{Thread Local Storage}
-\newacronym{api}{API}{Application Program Interface}
-\newacronym{raii}{RAII}{Resource Acquisition Is Initialization}
-\newacronym{numa}{NUMA}{Non-Uniform Memory Access}