Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:38:37 +0000 From: "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> To: "Murray Stokely" <murray@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas Message-ID: <a2b6592c0803171638w64f63433gc546aacb8a3e46d2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0803171549pe0c2fffqa23ed6813f45a390@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a7894eb0802200020g5e4f9ff8p7d3044bbec261706@mail.gmail.com> <2a7894eb0803171515l7a0e1acld84b793aa3c9cc6c@mail.gmail.com> <2a7894eb0803171549pe0c2fffqa23ed6813f45a390@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17/03/2008, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> wrote: > The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for > the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin > next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please > send them to soc-admins@FreeBSD.org or post them here for discussion. [snip] How about tick()-less kernel - replace dependance on regular hearbeat with a delta-queue that could be used to program the time of the next scheduled interrupt? You could start with the delta-queue pretending to be a regular heart beat then work on changing deltas between events... I'm sure there was a mention of something similar in Linux... Cheers, Igor
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