Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis
Nirmal Thacker
thacker.nirmal at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 20:24:28 UTC 2009
Hello
This is regarding the dump utility cache efficiency analysis post made on
February '07 by Peter Jeremy [
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html]
and if this project is still open. I would be interested to begin exploring
FreeBSD (and contributing) by starting this project.
I do have some basic understanding of the problem at hand - to determine if
a unified cache would appeal as a more efficient/elegant solution compared
to the per-process-cache in the Dump utility implementation. I admit I am
new to this list and FreeBSD so I wouldn't be able to determine what the
current implementation is, until I get started.
I would first like to understand the opinions of anyone who has looked at
this problem or think this would be a worthwhile project to start off with.
I would also appreciate if I could get simple tips and pointers of setting
up my machine for the project. I understand this would be on the lines of:
1. Installing a stable FreeBSD build
2. Check out a version of the Build suitable for the project
3. Pointers to begin studying the current implementation in the code-tree
structure (would I expect it to lie in the fs/ directory?). I tried to find
it in the FreeBSD cross reference (http://fxr.watson.org/)
4. Read some important sections of the developer handbook (some suggestions
would be great)
Lastly- does this project require the know-how's of device drivers? If so, I
would have to work harder.
Thanks a lot!
- nirmal
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