[gsoc] Multi-queue scheduler - Week 1

[Jessica Yu]

Hello everyone!

My name is Jessica and I'm currently a student at UC Berkeley. Quite excited for this summer! :-) I'll be working on improving the process scheduler on Plan 9, making it more efficient on multicore systems.

This week I'll be focusing on reorganizing the scheduler codebase, changing the scheduler run queue into a per-Mach construction rather than a global entity. I'll also be modifying runproc() to account for these changes, which will hopefully make scheduling and process selection more efficient.

I will be posting brief weekly updates to this mailing list as well as more in-depth updates to http://flaming-toast.github.io/. Project code will be publicly available at https://bitbucket.org/flaming-toast/mqs-nix.


-Jessica

[Jeremy Jackins]

Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing the results of this.