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| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads.mdwn | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning.mdwn | 2 |
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 |