SuperCore Scheduler (GSOC 2014)

[Sebastian Huber]

On 2014-03-01 01:13, Andre Marques wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As stated in [1] I will be working with RTEMS for my undergraduate thesis, but
> I'm also looking to work with RTEMS through GSOC.
>
> For the last month I have been working on a test case to check rename() POSIX
> compliance. For GSOC, however, I would like to work on a SMP-aware scheduler,
> if possible.

Sorry, I still didn't have the time to review it.

>
> What I understood from the SuperCore Scheduler project page is that there is
> still some work to be done on global edf started last year by Sree harsha
> konduri. Is it enough or relevant for another GSOC project?
>
> If not, would it be interesting to implement a new scheduler, for instance
> pfair or llref?

The SMP support is work in progress, so it is hard to predict how things will 
turn out in the next couple of months.  Gedare did a great job with the 
scheduler operations API so that the scheduler is now an application 
configuration option.  One goal is to leverage it to support 
clustered/partitioned scheduling.  I think RTEMS will be a good platform to 
study real-time SMP systems in the future.  Currently a lot of research is done 
on Linux.  RTEMS however is much simpler to understand (e.g. no virtual memory, 
much smaller code base) and may be a good experimental platform.

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