So I was thinking of this hideous project (don't laugh!) at tearing out the CFS scheduler and then rewriting a very dumb scheduler in it's place. What do you guys think? This is of course just to understand the scheduler better.
I just don't know how large or ridiculous this is though :) On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:59 AM, One Thousand Gnomes <gno...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> I've made small contributions to other OSS projects before but now I'm >> at a loss for how to study the kernel code base, what to try to >> break/change to study how the kernel works. > > LXR is useful for finding code and where it goes, but the kernel is a big > project. Don't assume anyone knows how of all it works. > >> Is there some simple work a newbie like me can take up? Any maintainer >> need some grunt work done? Or perhaps someone could suggest a pet >> project I could try to understand things better? (Should I be learning >> how to write device drivers?) >> >> Things that are very interesting to me so far are the KVM and the Scheduler. > > Then I would fiddle with KVM and the scheduler ! > > Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
