Google SoC 2009 Idea
Sam Leffler
sam at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 24 11:17:26 PST 2009
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.
>
>> These may be there already in ULE, although I'm not sure about NUMA.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>>
>
> Waiting for your response,
>
>
I note you sent this same note to the netbsd mailing lists. You might
want to do some more investigation before you propose a project.
Sam
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