From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 1 21:04:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E9A106568E for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 21:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabio@freebsd.org) Received: from sssup.it (ms01.sssup.it [193.205.80.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82F38FC19 for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 21:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabio@freebsd.org) Received: from [193.205.82.7] (HELO gandalf.sssup.it) by sssup.it (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 50442066 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 May 2009 21:56:28 +0200 Received: from smaug.retis (smaug.retis [10.30.3.72]) by gandalf.sssup.it (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n41K4Fxi023126 for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 22:04:15 +0200 Received: by smaug.retis (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8603538C3; Fri, 1 May 2009 22:10:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 22:10:45 +0200 From: Fabio Checconi To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090501201045.GA8738@gandalf.sssup.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: SoC2009: Geom-based Disk Schedulers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 21:04:17 -0000 Hi all, I'm a PhD student, this summer I'll work on a SoC project on disk scheduling. I will extend the work we started with luigi, that we already presented in [1, 2]. Two of the main areas that still need improvement, and that will be considered during the project, are doing proper request classification and performance tuning for the specific scheduling algorithms. More info available on the wiki page of the project: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2009FabioChecconi [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047597.html [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-March/048704.html