Google SoC 2009 Idea

[Jordan Gordeev]

Sam Leffler wrote:
> 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
>
It was also sent to the DragonFly mailing lists. :-)