+1 from me.  Great idea.

Mike

Jonathan Chew wrote:
> I would like to get sponsorship from the OpenSolaris performance 
> community to host a CMT project which will focus on observability, 
> performance enhancements, and potentially more in OpenSolaris for Chip 
> Multi-Threaded (CMT) processors (including SMT, CMP, etc.).
> 
> Specifically, the project will try to do the following in OpenSolaris:
> 
> - Further develop a processor group abstraction for capturing the CMT 
> processor sharing relationhips of performance relevant hardware 
> components (eg. execution pipeline, cache, etc.)
> 
> - Create an interface for determining which CPUs share what performance 
> relevant hardware and the characteristics of these performance relevant 
> hardware components
> 
> - Add more performance optimizations to Solaris for CMT (eg. scheduling, 
> I/O, etc.)
> 
> - Improve load balancing for maximizing performance and potentially 
> minimizing power consumption
> 
> - Create APIs to facilitate performance optimizations for CMT
> 
> - Make changes needed to make all of the above work well with virtualization
> 
> - Improve upon the existing Solaris CMT enhancements
> 
> - Add support for new CMT hardware as needed
> 
> - Address any OpenSolaris CMT issues as they arise
> 
> 
> In the process of doing all of this, I'm hoping that the project will 
> facilitate collaboration in this area as well as a better understanding 
> and appreciation of  CMT and OpenSolaris.
> 
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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