On 07/03/16 16:05, Joel Sherrill wrote:
On Mar 7, 2016 12:03 AM, "Sebastian Huber"
<sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de
<mailto:sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> On 06/03/16 19:17, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>
>> 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. :)
Yes, you are right. x86 can keep you busy for a summer and afterwards
you need a long holiday.
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