Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER

Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26T15:06:22Z

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:54 PM, raz ben yehuda<raziebe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have always been fascinated by the idea of controlling another cpu
>> from the main CPU.
>>
>> Usually these cpus are custom, run proprietary software, and have no
>> datasheet on their I/O interfaces.
>>
>> But, being able to turn an ordinary CPU into something like that seems
>> to be very nice.
>>
>> For example, It might help with profiling. Think about a program that
>> can run uninterrupted how much it wants.
>>
>> I might even be better, if the dedicated CPU would use a predefined
>> reserved memory range (I wish there was a way to actually lock it to
>> that range)
>>
>> On the other hand, I could see this as a jump platform for more
>> proprietary code, something like that: we use linux in out server
>> platform, but out "insert buzzword here" network stack pro+ can handle
>> 100% more load that linux does, and it runs on a dedicated core....
>>
>> In the other words, we might see 'firmwares' that take an entire cpu for
>> their usage.
>
> This is exactly what offsched (sos) is. you got it. SOS was partly inspired by the notion of a GPU.

So where are the patches? The URL in the original post returns 404...