Eric Saxe wrote: > I'd like to nominate Sherry Moore for a core contributer grant in our > community. > > Sherry is the tech lead for the community sponsored "Enable/Enhance > Solaris support for Intel Platform" project, and is a Senior Staff > Engineer in the Solaris Kernel group. Her contributions to Solaris / > OpenSolaris performance have been many, but to list a few: > > - Reducing Cache Pollution with Non-temporal Access, which improved > write performance by 80-120% on x86 platforms. > - Enabled ON compilation with Sun Studio 10 which improved build time. > - Fast Reboot (ongoing) From "reboot" command to banner in 5 seconds. > > Other notable accomplishments: > > - Intel Microcode Update Support > - "save-args" on amd64, so that we can have the stack arguments > available via the debugger > - Worked on the port of Solaris to amd64 > - Worked extensively on Solaris Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) support >
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