[Nouveau] GSOC project

2017-01-17 Thread Shailesh Tripathi
Hello, I am quite interested in the project "Instruction Scheduler" under X.org. Please tell me where can I find a detailed idea of the project and how to start it. I think I have the given prerequisites. Regards Shailesh Tripathi Shailesh Tripathi B.Tech. Part-IV Electronics Engineering IIT-BHU

Re: [Nouveau] GSOC project

2017-01-17 Thread Ilia Mirkin
There's not a lot of information about it. Basically we need 2 instruction scheduling passes -- one pre-RA and one post-RA. The prerequisites are "know how compilers work" and "have a GPU that you can test performance on". I won't beat around the bush - this is a very tough project. Every attempt

Re: [Nouveau] GSOC project

2017-01-17 Thread Karol Herbst
Hi, I think a nice project would be to write an application to figure out those latencies automatically maybe even based on envydis. It could generate latency information based on thread count, register usage, instruction/instruction class, hw unit used. Or even tries to figure out what kind o

Re: [Nouveau] GSOC project

2017-01-19 Thread Shailesh Tripathi
Hello, Even I think it would be a very big project for just 3 months, but it would be fun learning and developing this. I feel I have the required skills and would like to learn more for this. I have just one doubt regarding the GPU required for the task. Will a normal NVIDIA GT 740m would be enoug

Re: [Nouveau] GSOC project

2017-01-19 Thread Ilia Mirkin
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Shailesh Tripathi < shailesh.tripathi.ec...@itbhu.ac.in> wrote: > Hello, > Even I think it would be a very big project for just 3 months, but it > would be fun learning and developing this. I feel I have the required > skills and would like to learn more for this.