Google SoC 2009 Idea

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:37:40AM +0530, Siddharth Prakash Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Ray Mihm <ray.mihm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler.
> >> I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD.
> >> Hence, I am not yet aware about the current support for Multicore
> >> Architectures.
> >
> > Talk to jeff at freebsd.org, the author of ULE.
> 
> What are your opinions on this project? What is the scope of this project?
> >
> >> Linux Kernel 2.6.* currently supports SMP, SMT, NUMA architectures.
> 
> Does the current scheduler has support for "CPU affinity/binding",
> mechanism for distinguishing varying capability of CPUs.

I highly recommend you read Jeff's paper on an early version of ULE and
look at the code.  See also, cpuset(1).

Successful summer of code applicants will have demonstrated the ability
to follow leads on their own.

-- Brooks

> >
> > These may be there already in ULE, although I'm not sure about NUMA.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> 
> Waiting for your response,
> 
> Siddharth
> 
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> Siddharth Prakash Singh
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