begin writing gls entries, modify the styling too

thesis/bachelor.tex

@@ -97,9 +97,8 @@ plainpages=false,pdfpagelabels=true]{hyperref}
 
 \appendix
 
-\setglossarystyle{altlistgroup}
+\setglossarystyle{altlist}
 \printglossaries
-\todo{write glossary entries}
 \cleardoublepage
 
 \printbibliography

thesis/own.gls

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     name={IOMMU},
     long={Input/Output Memory Management Unit},
     first={Input/Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{iommu}:} \todo{write iomu description}}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{atc}{
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     name={ATC},
     long={Address Translation Cache},
     first={Address Translation Cache (ATC)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{atc}:} \todo{write arc description}}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{bar}{
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     name={BAR},
     long={Base Address Register},
     first={Base Address Register (BAR)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{bar}:} \todo{write bar description}}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{dsa}{
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     name={DSA},
     long={Intel Data Streaming Accelerator},
     first={Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa}:} A component of modern Intel server processors, capable of executing common data operations asynchronously and thereby offloading them from the CPU.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{dsa:wq}{
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     name={WQ},
     long={Work Queue},
     first={Work Queue (WQ)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa:wq}:}  Architectural component of the \gls{dsa} to which data is submitted by the user. See Section \ref{subsec:state:dsa-arch-comp} for more detail on its function.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{dsa:swq}{
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     name={SWQ},
     long={Shared Work Queue},
     first={Shared Work Queue (SWQ)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa:swq}:} A type of Work Queue to which submissions are implicitly synchronized, allowing safe usage from multiple processes. See Section \ref{subsec:state:dsa-arch-comp} for more detail.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{dsa:dwq}{
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     name={DWQ},
     long={Dedicated Work Queue},
     first={Dedicated Work Queue (DWQ)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dsa:dwq}:} A type of Work Queue only usable by one process, and therefore with potentially lower submission overhead. See Section \ref{subsec:state:dsa-arch-comp} for more detail.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{pcie-dmr}{
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     name={DMR},
     long={PCIe Deferrable Memory Write Request},
     first={PCIe Deferrable Memory Write Request (DMR)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{pcie-dmr}:} \todo{write pcie-dmr description}}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{x86:enqcmd}{
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
     name={ENQCMD},
     long={x86 Instruction ENQCMD},
     first={x86 Instruction ENQCMD},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{x86:enqcmd}:} \todo{write enqcmd description}}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{x86:movdir64b}{
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     name={MOVDIR64B},
     long={x86 Instruction MOVDIR64B},
     first={x86 Instruction MOVDIR64B},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{x86:movdir64b}:} \todo{write movdir64b description}}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{x86:pasid}{
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     name={PASID},
     long={Process Address Space ID},
     first={Process Address Space ID (PASID)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{x86:pasid}:} Identifier used by the \glsentryshort{dsa} in conjunction with the \glsentryshort{iommu} to resolve virtual addresses. See Section \ref{subsubsec:state:dsa-vaddr}.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{intel:dml}{
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
     name={Intel DML},
     long={Intel Data Mover Library},
     first={Intel Data Mover Library (Intel DML)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{intel:dml}:} A library presenting a high-level interface with the \glsentryshort{dsa}. View the usage example in Section \ref{sec:state:dml} or the library documentation \cite{intel:dmldoc} for further information.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{numa}{
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     name={NUMA},
     long={Non-Uniform Memory Architecture},
     first={Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{numa}:} Describes a system architecture organized into different Nodes with each node observing different access patterns to memory for the available address range.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{numa:node}{
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     name={Node},
     long={NUMA-Node},
     first={NUMA-Node (Node)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{numa:node}:} A Node in a NUMA-system. See the Entry for NUMA for an explanation of both.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{hbm}{
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
     name={HBM},
     long={High Bandwidth Memory},
     first={High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{hbm}:} Main memory technology, consisting of stacked DRAM-dies. Section \ref{sec:state:hbm} offers more detail.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{dram}{
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
     name={DDR-SDRAM},
     long={Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory},
     first={Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DDR-SDRAM)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{dram}:} Main memory technology found in common computer systems.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{qdp}{
@@ -131,13 +131,14 @@
     name={QdP},
     long={Query-driven Prefetching},
     first={Query-driven Prefetching (QdP)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{qdp}:} Methodology to determine database columns worth prefetching to cache in order to accelerate a queries. Described in Section \ref{sec:state:qdp}.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{mempress}{
     short={memory pressure},
     name={Memory Pressure},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    long={Memory Pressure},
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{mempress}:} Situation where high memory utilization is encountered.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{api}{
@@ -145,13 +146,14 @@
     name={API},
     long={Application Programming Interface},
     first={Application Programming Interface (API)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{api}:} Public functions exposed by a library, through which programs utilizing this library can interact with it.}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{remotemem}{
     short={Remote Memory},
     name={Remote Memory},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    long={Remote Memory},
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{remotemem}:} ... desc ... \todo{write remotemem description}}
 }
 
 \newglossaryentry{nvram}{
@@ -159,5 +161,5 @@
     name={NVRAM},
     long={Non-Volatile RAM},
     first={Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM)},
-    description={... desc ...}
+    description={\textsc{\glsentrylong{nvram}:} Main memory technology which, unlike \glsentryshort{dram}, retains data when without power.}
 }