Re: gets on NOP SPU

Oops, I guess I spoke too soon.  The Get routines probably use the 
state tracker simply to avoid returning totally random values to the 
app.  I don't think there's any connection to the crserver since the 
NOP SPU can be used on app nodes too.

-Brian


[email protected] wrote:
>>From nop.py, notice it calls 'crState' for 'get' statements and 'nop' for everything else...I was curious about the 'crState'.  Is this some form of state-tracking and how does it work?  See crState in line '2' below.
> 
> nop.py code from the bottom of file
> ...
> 1 elif "get" in apiutil.Properties(func_name):
> 2 	print '\t{ "%s", (SPUGenericFunction) crState%s },' % (func_name, func_name )
> 3 else:
> 4 	print '\t{ "%s", (SPUGenericFunction) nop%s },' % (func_name, func_name )
>  
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Brian Paul <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
>>[email protected] wrote:
>>
>>>Hi.
>>>
>>>I had a question about the NOP spu. I noticed that for Extended Opcode
>>>calls which return information all happen to call functions within the
>>>state_tracker\state_regcombiner.c file.
>>
>>The NOP SPU doesn't do anything like that.  See spu/nop/nopspu.c
>>
>>
>>
>>>I assume this is to maintain some sort of state on the crserver
>>>side. Does the application client sit and wait to receive a return
>>>call (crNetSend->crNetRecv) for these Extended Opcode calls, or is it
>>>left waiting forever?
>>>
>>>Does anyone have a good explanation as to what the NOP does when it
>>>receives these Extended Opcodes?
>>
>>Are you sure you're talking about the NOP SPU?
>>
>>-Brian
>>
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