GSoC 2015 : UserSpace pthread mutex lock contention profiling

[Rui Paulo]

On Mar 6, 2015, at 17:23, Gokul Krishna <gokulkrishna334 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I am currently studying 2nd year of masters in embedded systems at KTH
> Royal institute of technology , Sweden.
> I have around 4  years of experience in Embedded systems ,  Embedded linux
> applications and device drivers projects.
> I have worked on following Linux projects with thread applications
> 1.  I worked in Designing Multi-threading linux application for concurrent
> server with 2 clients.
> 2.  I worked for thread pooling in GTK  GUI  for Networked wireless sensor
> nodes.
> 3. I worked on computer architecture  assignments with CLH lock
> implementation for threads .
> So I am interested in working for this GSoC project Userspace pthread mutex
> lock contention profiling.
> Kindly reply me what do I need to do for project proposal.
> thanks and regards

One thing you could investigate is making sure plockstat works in FreeBSD.  plockstat is the Solaris lock analyser based on DTrace.

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Rui Paulo