Hi all, I talked to Padraig on IRC last night, and I'm all for this. I was already planning a pool_of_threads rewrite once the new socket code is in so we can look at doing a real non-blocking I/O scheduler. I'd be happy to help out where I can and be a mentor if needed.
-Eric On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:32:44PM -0400, Padraig O'Sullivan wrote: > Hi! > > I saw that MySQL was accepted as a mentoring organization for SoC 2009 > and I've been thinking of project ideas that might be useful for the > community. One idea I have that is of interest to me is related to > schedulers. I think that a good SoC project would be to work on a new > scheduler which addresses the problems with the current pool of > threads scheduler. I have written up a very rough project application > based on the MySQL application template which is available here: > > http://www.ece.umd.edu/~posulliv/gsoc/ > > Does this sound like a good project for SoC? Is it something that the > community would be interested in seeing somebody work on and that > someone would be willing to be a mentor for? Based on discussions I > have seen on this mailing list, I was under the impression that it > might be a good fit for SoC. Any feedback people have would be greatly > appreciated or any alternate suggestions for a SoC project would be > awesome too. > > Thanks for your time. > -Padraig > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
