+1 On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Rafael Vanoni wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ > pm-discuss mailing list > pm-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-discuss >
