Re: Student Project Ideas

[Lee Revell]

On 3/29/07, Russ Meyerriecks <datachomper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I've been hacking on the Linux kernel all semester for my OS:
> Internals class. We are given full autonomy in picking our final
> programming project and I would love for mine to be /useful/ for the
> Linux kernel and not just a theoretical exorcise. If anybody has any
> bug fixes or features maybe they never got around to, and would be
> suitable for this situation, I would love to hear about them.

You could try to get scheduling latency down into the 1-2ms range
without resorting to kernel preemption.  rt_secret_rebuild is the main
problem - it does not take any spinlocks, and is not a hot path, but
runs in softirq context and is thus non-preemptible.  Even if you
don't succeed you'll acquire a deep knowledge of the networking code.

Lee
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