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-rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn | 8 | ||||
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-rw-r--r-- | open_issues/performance/io_system/clustered_page_faults.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | open_issues/profiling.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | open_issues/valgrind.mdwn | 83 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | systemtap.mdwn | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | topgit.mdwn | 5 |
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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn index b6f223c8..ae634709 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Disk I/O Performance Tuning"]] +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + The most obvious reason for the Hurd feeling slow compared to mainstream systems like GNU/Linux, is a low I/O system performance, in particular very slow hard disk access. @@ -18,8 +20,8 @@ slow hard disk access. The reason for this slowness is lack and/or bad implementation of common optimization techniques, like scheduling reads and writes to minimize head movement; effective block caching; effective reads/writes to partial blocks; -[[reading/writing multiple blocks at once|clustered_page_faults]]; and -[[read-ahead]]. The +[[reading/writing multiple blocks at once|open_issues/performance/io_system/clustered_page_faults]]; and +[[open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead]]. The [[ext2_filesystem_server|hurd/translator/ext2fs]] might also need some optimizations at a higher logical level. @@ -29,12 +31,12 @@ requires understanding the data flow through the various layers involved in disk access on the Hurd ([[filesystem|hurd/virtual_file_system]], [[pager|hurd/libpager]], driver), and general experience with optimizing complex systems. That said, the killing feature we are definitely -missing is the [[read-ahead]], and even a very simple implementation would bring +missing is the [[open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead]], and even a very simple implementation would bring very big performance speedups. Here are some real testcases: - * [[binutils_ld_64ksec]]; + * [[open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec]]; * running the Git testsuite which is mostly I/O bound; diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace.mdwn index 252c303a..8fd3231f 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace.mdwn @@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="dtrace Support"]] +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach]] + One of the main problems of the current Hurd implementation is very poor -[[performance]]. While we have a bunch of ideas what could cause the performance +[[open_issues/performance]]. While we have a bunch of ideas what could cause the performance problems, these are mostly just guesses. Better understanding what really causes bad performance is necessary to improve the situation. For that, we need tools for performance measurements. While all kinds of more -or less specific [[profiling]] tools could be conceived, the most promising and +or less specific [[open_issues/profiling]] tools could be conceived, the most promising and generic approach seems to be a framework for logging certain events in the running system (both in the microkernel and in the Hurd servers). This would allow checking how much time is spent in certain modules, how often certain @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ with integrating existing components as well as low-level programming. Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) -Related: [[profiling]], [[LTTng]], [[SystemTap]] +Related: [[open_issues/profiling]], [[LTTng]], [[SystemTap]] Exercise: In lack of a good exercise directly related to this task, just pick one of the kernel-related or generally low-level tasks from the bug/task diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn index 0e38b6a0..f26efb7f 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Fix libdiskfs Locking Issues"]] +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + Every now and then, new locking issues are discovered in [[hurd/libdiskfs]] or [[hurd/translator/ext2fs]], for example. Nowadays these in fact seem to be the most often encountered cause of Hurd crashes @@ -24,19 +26,19 @@ faulty paths causing these lockups. The task is systematically checking the [[hurd/libdiskfs]] code for this kind of locking issues. To achieve this, some kind of test harness has to be implemented: For example instrumenting the code to check locking correctness constantly at -runtime. Or implementing a [[unit testing]] framework that explicitly checks +runtime. Or implementing a [[open_issues/unit_testing]] framework that explicitly checks locking in various code paths. (The latter could serve as a template for implementing unit tests in other parts of the Hurd codebase...) -(A [[systematic code review|security]] would probably suffice to find the +(A [[systematic code review|open_issues/security]] would probably suffice to find the existing locking issues; but it wouldn't document the work in terms of actual code produced, and thus it's not suitable for a GSoC project...) This task requires experience with debugging locking issues in -[[multithreaded|multithreading]] applications. +[[multithreaded|open_issues/multithreading]] applications. -Tools have been written for automated [[code analysis]]; these can help to +Tools have been written for automated [[open_issues/code_analysis]]; these can help to locate and fix such errors. Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn index d4760aae..b4d1dc5f 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -43,3 +44,8 @@ Exercise: Add or fix one piece in the existing procfs translator. *Status*: Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for GSoC 2008. He is still working on some outstanding issues. + +--- + +Note that [[jkoenig's `procfs` re-write|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] should +address all these issues already. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn index 79c8bd1d..16cd1373 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind.mdwn @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Porting Valgrind to the Hurd"]] +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issues_hurd]] + [Valgrind](http://valgrind.org/) is an extremely useful debugging tool for memory errors. (And some other kinds of hard-to-find errors too.) Aside from being useful for program development in general, @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] # Related - * [[open_issues/dtrace]] + * [[community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace]] * [[SystemTap]] diff --git a/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn b/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn index ad59f962..21e09089 100644 --- a/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/code_analysis.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ analysis|performance]], [[formal_verification]], as well as general * <http://blog.llvm.org/2010/04/whats-wrong-with-this-code.html> - * [[Valgrind]] + * [[community/gsoc/project_ideas/Valgrind]] * [Smatch](http://smatch.sourceforge.net/) diff --git a/open_issues/debugging.mdwn b/open_issues/debugging.mdwn index e66a086f..e087f484 100644 --- a/open_issues/debugging.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/debugging.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ We have debugging infrastructure. For example: Continues: <http://lwn.net/Articles/414264/>, which introduces <http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/>. - * [[locking]] + * [[community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking]] * <http://lwn.net/Articles/415728/>, or <http://lwn.net/Articles/415471/> -- just two examples; there's a lot of such stuff for Linux. diff --git a/open_issues/dtrace.mdwn b/open_issues/dtrace.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index cbac28fb..00000000 --- a/open_issues/dtrace.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -One of the main problems of the current Hurd implementation is very poor -[[performance]]. While we have a bunch of ideas what could cause the performance -problems, these are mostly just guesses. Better understanding what really -causes bad performance is necessary to improve the situation. - -For that, we need tools for performance measurements. While all kinds of more -or less specific [[profiling]] tools could be conceived, the most promising and -generic approach seems to be a framework for logging certain events in the -running system (both in the microkernel and in the Hurd servers). This would -allow checking how much time is spent in certain modules, how often certain -situations occur, how things interact, etc. It could also prove helpful in -debugging some issues that are otherwise hard to find because of complex -interactions. - -The most popular framework for that is Sun's dtrace; but there might be others. -The student has to evaluate the existing options, deciding which makes most -sense for the Hurd; and implement that one. (Apple's implementation of dtrace -in their Mach-based kernel might be helpful here...) - -This project requires ability to evaluate possible solutions, and experience -with integrating existing components as well as low-level programming. - -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Related: [[profiling]], [[LTTng]], [[SystemTap]] - -Exercise: In lack of a good exercise directly related to this task, just pick -one of the kernel-related or generally low-level tasks from the bug/task -trackers on savannah, and make a go at it. You might not be able to finish the -task in a limited amount of time, but you should at least be able to make a -detailed analysis of the issue. - -*Status*: Andei Barbu was working on -[SystemTap](http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~abarbu/hurd/) for GSoC 2008, but it -turned out too Linux-specific. He implemented kernel probes, but there is no -nice frontend yet. diff --git a/open_issues/locking.mdwn b/open_issues/locking.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 6e22f887..00000000 --- a/open_issues/locking.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!tag open_issue_hurd gsoc-task]] - -Every now and then, new locking issues are discovered in -[[hurd/libdiskfs]] or [[hurd/translator/ext2fs]], for example. Nowadays -these in fact seem to be the most often encountered cause of Hurd crashes -/ lockups. - -One of these could be traced -recently, and turned out to be a lock inside [[hurd/libdiskfs]] that was taken -and not released in some cases. There is reason to believe that there are more -faulty paths causing these lockups. - -The task is systematically checking the [[hurd/libdiskfs]] code for this kind of locking -issues. To achieve this, some kind of test harness has to be implemented: For -example instrumenting the code to check locking correctness constantly at -runtime. Or implementing a [[unit testing]] framework that explicitly checks -locking in various code paths. (The latter could serve as a template for -implementing unit tests in other parts of the Hurd codebase...) - -(A [[systematic code review|security]] would probably suffice to find the -existing locking -issues; but it wouldn't document the work in terms of actual code produced, and -thus it's not suitable for a GSoC project...) - -This task requires experience with debugging locking issues in -[[multithreaded|multithreading]] applications. - -Tools have been written for automated [[code analysis]]; these can help to -locate and fix such errors. diff --git a/open_issues/performance.mdwn b/open_issues/performance.mdwn index 9b3701b3..eb9f3f8a 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ In [[microkernel]]-based systems, there is generally a considerable [[RPC]] overhead. In a multi-server system, it is non-trivial to implement a high-performance -[[I/O System|io_system]]. +[[I/O System|community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance]]. When providing [[faq/POSIX_compatibility]] (and similar interfaces) in an environemnt that doesn't natively implement these interfaces, there may be a diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8535eae3..00000000 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="I/O System"]] - -[[!tag open_issue_hurd gsoc-task]] - -The most obvious reason for the Hurd feeling slow compared to mainstream -systems like GNU/Linux, is a low I/O system performance, in particular very -slow hard disk access. - -The reason for this slowness is lack and/or bad implementation of common -optimization techniques, like scheduling reads and writes to minimize head -movement; effective block caching; effective reads/writes to partial blocks; -[[reading/writing multiple blocks at once|clustered_page_faults]]; and -[[read-ahead]]. The -[[ext2_filesystem_server|hurd/translator/ext2fs]] might also need some -optimizations at a higher logical level. - -The goal of this project is to analyze the current situation, and implement/fix -various optimizations, to achieve significantly better disk performance. It -requires understanding the data flow through the various layers involved in -disk access on the Hurd ([[filesystem|hurd/virtual_file_system]], -[[pager|hurd/libpager]], driver), and general experience with -optimizing 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. - -Here are some real testcases: - - * [[binutils_ld_64ksec]]; - - * running the Git testsuite which is mostly I/O bound; - - * use [[TopGit]] on a non-toy repository. - - -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Exercise: Look through all the code involved in disk I/O, and try something -easy to improve. It's quite likely though that you will find nothing obvious -- -in this case, please contact us about a different exercise task. diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn index b59a87a7..79c2300f 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_hurd]] -This one may be considered as a testcase for I/O system optimization. +This one may be considered as a testcase for [[I/O system +optimization|community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance]]. It is taken from the [[binutils testsuite|binutils]], `ld/ld-elf/sec64k.exp`, where this diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system/clustered_page_faults.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system/clustered_page_faults.mdwn index 3a187523..37433e06 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system/clustered_page_faults.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system/clustered_page_faults.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] +[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance]]. + IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-02-16 <braunr> exceptfor the kernel, everything in an address space is diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn index 3ee30b5d..b6851edd 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] +[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance]] + IRC, #hurd, freenode, 2011-02-13: <etenil> youpi: Would libdiskfs/diskfs.h be in the right place to make diff --git a/open_issues/profiling.mdwn b/open_issues/profiling.mdwn index e04fb08a..7e3c7350 100644 --- a/open_issues/profiling.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/profiling.mdwn @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ done for [[performance analysis|performance]] reasons. Should be working, but some issues have been reported, regarding GCC spec files. Should be possible to fix (if not yet done) easily. - * [[dtrace]] + * [[community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace]] Have a look at this, integrate it into the main trees. diff --git a/open_issues/valgrind.mdwn b/open_issues/valgrind.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index bd45829c..00000000 --- a/open_issues/valgrind.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,83 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Porting Valgrind to the Hurd"]] - -[[!tag gsoc-task]] - -[Valgrind](http://valgrind.org/) is an extremely useful debugging tool for memory errors. -(And some other kinds of hard-to-find errors too.) -Aside from being useful for program development in general, -a Hurd port will help finding out why certain programs segfault on the Hurd, -although they work on Linux. -Even more importantly, it will help finding bugs in the Hurd servers themselfs. - -To keep track of memory use, -Valgrind however needs to know how each [[system call]] affects the validity of memory regions. -This knowledge is highly kernel-specific, -and thus Valgrind needs to be explicitely ported for every system. - -Such a port involves two major steps: -making Valgrind understand how kernel traps work in general on the system in question; -and how all the individual kernel calls affect memory. -The latter step is where most of the work is, -as the behaviour of each single [[system call]] needs to be described. - -Compared to Linux, -[[microkernel/Mach]] (the microkernel used by the Hurd) has very few kernel traps. -Almost all [[system call]]s are implemented as [[RPC]]s instead -- -either handled by Mach itself, or by the various [[Hurd servers|hurd/translator]]. -All RPCs use a pair of `mach_msg` invocations: -one to send a request message, and one to receive a reply. -However, while all RPCs use the same `mach_msg` trap, -the actual effect of the call varies greatly depending on which RPC is invoked -- -similar to the `ioctl` call on Linux. -Each request thus must be handled individually. - -Unlike `ioctl`, -the RPC invocations have explicit type information for the parameters though, -which can be retrieved from the message header. -By analyzing the parameters of the RPC reply message, -Valgrind can know exactly which memory regions are affected by that call, -even without specific knowledge of the RPC in question. -Thus implementing a general parser for the reply messages -will already give Valgrind a fairly good approximation of memory validity -- -without having to specify the exact semantic of each RPC by hand. - -While this should make Valgrind quite usable on the Hurd already, it's not perfect: -some RPCs might return a buffer that is only partially filled with valid data; -or some reply parameters might be optional, -and only contain valid data under certain conditions. -Such specific semantics can't be deduced from the message headers alone. -Thus for a complete port, -it will still be necessary to go through the list of all known RPCs, -and implement special handling in Valgrind for those RPCs that need it. - -The goal of this task is at minimum to make Valgrind grok Mach traps, -and to implement the generic RPC handler. -Ideally, specific handling for RPCs needing it should also be implemented. - -Completing this project will require digging into Valgrind's handling of [[system call]]s, -and into Hurd RPCs. -It is not an easy task, but a fairly predictable one -- -there shouldn't be any unexpected difficulties, -and no major design work is necessary. -It doesn't require any specific previous knowledge: -only good programming skills in general. -On the other hand, -the student will obtain a good understanding of Hurd RPCs while working on this task, -and thus perfect qualifications for Hurd development in general :-) - -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Exercise: As a starter, -students can try to teach valgrind a couple of Linux ioctls, -as this will make them learn how to use the read/write primitives of valgrind. diff --git a/systemtap.mdwn b/systemtap.mdwn index abd1961e..ba64c0d4 100644 --- a/systemtap.mdwn +++ b/systemtap.mdwn @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] # Related - * [[open_issues/dtrace]] + * [[community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace]] * [[LTTng]] diff --git a/topgit.mdwn b/topgit.mdwn index b71038ec..fb374337 100644 --- a/topgit.mdwn +++ b/topgit.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ development branches, for example [[source_repositories/binutils]] or # Running it on GNU/Hurd Nothing special to that, technically, *only* that our [[I/O system's (non-) -performance|open_issues/performance/io_system]] will render this unbearably +performance|community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance]] will render this +unbearably slow for anything but simple test cases. So don't try to run it on the [[GCC]] or [[glibc]] repositories. Talk to [[tschwinge]] about how he's using it on a GNU/Linux machine and push the resulting trees to GNU/Hurd systems. |