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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2009-03-09 01:44:01 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2009-03-09 01:44:01 +0100
commitaaac981cf2ffd2d94bd24fb581dfe447cc24361e (patch)
treee66fa88cbbb36df4cd0343c5880f5a2e7da8093c /community
parent2735e3313a4621144ab1253748980b80aed93546 (diff)
put myself as possible mentor, add comment on the pthread project
Diffstat (limited to 'community')
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn
index 02e0b675..878c9bdd 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ optimising complex systems. That said, the killing feature we are definitely
missing is the read-ahead, and even a very simple implementation would bring
very big performance speedups.
-Possible mentors: ?
+Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
Exercise: Make some modification in at least one of the components involved in
disk I/O. (More specific suggestions welcome... :-) )
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
index 4ac20b45..def57313 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn
@@ -46,3 +46,6 @@ Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
Exercise: Take some small piece of code using ctreads and convert it to
pthreads.
+
+Note: Barry Defreese already has an almost complete patch: boring parts should
+be mostly done, tricky parts are still missing.
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn
index 79361189..d1d75e10 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ VM, and virtual memory in general.
This project is related to [[GNU_Savannah_task 5489]].
-Possible mentors: ?
+Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
Exercise: Make some modification to the existing VM code. You could try to find
a piece of code that can be improved with simple code optimization, for