Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:50:40 +0530 | Subject | Re: Student Project Idea | From | Peter Chacko <> |
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As a student it helps if you come out of the inhibition that only kernel level projects are great and other disciplines don't worth a dime for a fresh grad. Kernel development is generally meant for experienced developers who already did non-kernel, system level development for some time. There are many areas which are less glamorous, but need the application of heavy computer science, and un-explored for which a brilliant grad student can contribute to.
Indicative list is that i can think of off-hand is ,
1) development of multi-core aware , concurrent data structures and algorithms that manipulate on them( which don't need locking for concurrency.(I mean shared-nothing, but concurrent)
2) study of performance on all system calls in a non-virtualized and virtualized systems, as it relates to storage and network IO.
3) Addition of an integrated data compression/decompression as part of Disk IO when VM images are written to disk. And you can also think of data de-dpulication across VM images.
4) ....and all other topics that others suggest.
A one time kernel developer(Aix/Solaris/Windows/Linux) .
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Satyam Shekhar<satyamshekhar@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a final year undergrad student at the Indian Institute of > Technology, Guwahati, India. I have my B.Tech project starting this > semester. I have a keen interest in kernel development and am looking > for topics for the project. > > I would be highly grateful if you could give me some suggestions or > ideas to work on in this regard. > > Regards > Satyam Shekhar > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
-- Best regards, Peter Chacko
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