Google SoC 2009 Idea

[Sam Leffler]

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