Please forgive me if you find me too off topic.
I'm not linux SMP kernel developer but I'm on the list
for informative purpose and for the valuable I can read on it.
I'm concerned by OO parallel numerical linear algebra
and I'm very interested in design and source code re-use mecanism
for both sequential and parallel code.
I recently read some papers on Open Implementation technologies
http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/oi/workshop-94/foil/main.html
http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/oi
The main idea of OI is to build program that open
their implementation in order to be configurable by the user of the
code and not only by the writer of the code.
This goes beyond the black box encapsulation idea that is still present
in recent OO technology.
I was very impressed by the idea since I end up applying
it without knowing somebody have presented formaly.
I found appealing to Linux-smp list since
the idea of "configurable" source code, have been applied to
OSes too. I'm not an OS expert but I think Linux SMP
and in particular the source code for the scheduler or for
network interface may exploit such 'source code configurability'
I think the "Open Implementation Design Guidelines" may
be worth reading for some of you:
http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/oi-at-parc/methodology.html#oiguide
Forgive me if you find it is junk mail for this list.
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Eric NOULARD
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