I'd like to get sponsorship from the ON and PM communities to host a project for the development of the tickless kernel architecture for OpenSolaris.
This project seeks to re implement the services provided by the clock to an event driven model, eliminating the system's need to wake up 100 times a second to perform arbitrary work. Instead, we will allow the processor to fall into deeper energy saving states only to be awaken when events are due. This enhancement will also contribute to scenarios where the OS is part of a virtualized system, reducing the need to switch execution between hosts only to perform unnecessary accounting. This project is spinning off from the Tesla Project, as it was decided that the tickless effort is large enough to stand as it's own project. Additionally, the PM community didn't exist when the project was conceived. Initial participants: Rafael Vanoni (rafaelv), Eric Saxe (esaxe), Madhavan Venkat, Alexander Kolbasov (akolb). All current leaders of the Tesla project will be invited to be leaders of this project. Tickless will target the ON consolidation, but may affect others. This issue is currently tracked by CR 6567390. Thanks, Rafael
