GSoC2016 : Providing SMP support for RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill]

On Mar 7, 2016 12:03 AM, "Sebastian Huber" <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
>
> On 06/03/16 19:17, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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>> Sebastian may have more general SMP ideas but the initial push for SMP
gave us great support on a subset of BSPs and architectures and left gaps
on others.
>
>
> working on SMP improvements is a bit difficult currently since I will
work in this area nearly full time in the next half a year or so. I hope
that Darshit Shah will work on the SMP scheduler optimizations for the
arbitrary processor affinities in GSoC 2016.
>
> Adding SMP support to a specific BSP for an architecture that already
supports SMP (ARM, PowerPC, SPARC) is not enough for a GSoC project. Even
adding SMP support to new architectures shouldn't be a big deal.

The x86 has enough issues to keep someone busy for a summer.

Also just because you can do something quickly doesn't mean a student can.
:)

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