Google SoC 2009 Idea

[Siddharth Prakash Singh]

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.
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> These may be there already in ULE, although I'm not sure about NUMA.
>
> Ray
>

Waiting for your response,

Siddharth

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