Secure Resource Partitions Terminology

There are several important terms relating to SRPs. These terms are used throughout the remainder of the chapter and in SRP documentation.

Application Manager: the operating system process that is responsible for ensuring that all processes are running in the proper PRM group. The application manager polls the PRM configuration file and the process table and moves processes to the appropriate PRM group as needed.

CPU Manager: the technology used to schedule processes on CPUs. FSS, PSETs, or a combination of the two can be used as the CPU manager.

Fair Share Scheduler (FSS): the process scheduler used for PRM groups that schedules processes to run according to the entitlement of each group. FSS guarantees that ...

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