Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-19 Thread yan cui
Any comments for this thread? There is only three days left for application. If the proposed idea should not be considered in this year, it should be removed from the GSoC idea list and I will submit a different proposal about the CPU hot plug problem in the FreeBSD kernel. Thanks, Yan

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-19 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 01:08:58PM -0400, yan cui wrote: Any comments for this thread? There is only three days left for application. If the proposed idea should not be considered in this year, it should be removed from the GSoC idea list and I will submit a different proposal about the CPU

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-18 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, March 14, 2014 3:02:18 am Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:56:35PM -0400, yan cui wrote: Hi all, I write this mail to make my question clear. I know witness can be used to detect wrong lock order in the kernel. However, can it be used to do lock

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-18 Thread yan cui
Really? Maybe I can download his code from previous GSoC. Actually, before applying for this idea, I did not scan the projects in previous years and just pick up one which I like. Are there any possibilities to improve on this part (or this idea should not be considered any more)? Yan

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-14 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:56:35PM -0400, yan cui wrote: Hi all, I write this mail to make my question clear. I know witness can be used to detect wrong lock order in the kernel. However, can it be used to do lock profiling (what I mean is to report the information such as which locks

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-14 Thread yan cui
Thanks for the reply! I will get more information about KTR subsystem. 2014-03-14 3:02 GMT-04:00 Wojciech A. Koszek wkos...@freebsd.org: On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:56:35PM -0400, yan cui wrote: Hi all, I write this mail to make my question clear. I know witness can be used to

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-14 Thread Wojciech A. Koszek
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 01:07:48PM -0400, yan cui wrote: Thanks for the reply! I will get more information about KTR subsystem. You can also look here: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Help_my_system_is_slow.pdf Wojciech 2014-03-14 3:02 GMT-04:00 Wojciech A. Koszek

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-13 Thread yan cui
Hi all, I have downloaded the newest FreeBSD-release kernel and scanned some codes. Wonder to know whether the lock order verification and lock profiling tool mentioned in the GSoC idea list is witness? Are there any other tools that needs to look at in the FreeBSD kernel? Thanks, Yan

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-13 Thread yan cui
Hi all, I write this mail to make my question clear. I know witness can be used to detect wrong lock order in the kernel. However, can it be used to do lock profiling (what I mean is to report the information such as which locks are most contended and print some related statistics such as

Re: FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 15:46:10 -0400 yan cui ccuiy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am a student in Columbia University (Yan Cui), and want to join the FreeBSD GSOC 2014. After scanned the idea list posted online, I think I am interested in the idea titled user space pthread mutex lock

FreeBSD GSOC proposal in 2014

2014-03-09 Thread yan cui
Hi All, I am a student in Columbia University (Yan Cui), and want to join the FreeBSD GSOC 2014. After scanned the idea list posted online, I think I am interested in the idea titled user space pthread mutex lock contention profiling and lock order verification tools. I have several year