Subject: Re: SMP projects
To: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/16/2007 13:01:17
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:25:09PM -0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> 
> => ad-audiomp
> 
> This puts MP locking into the audio subsystem and all of the drivers. The
> main goal is to make audio interrupt handling MP safe, so that the kernel
> lock doesn't have to get taken for audio interrupts. There are two reasons
> for that (1) it will reduce latency/skipping on MP systems and (2) it will
> make it possible for spin locks to be taken at IPL_VM, without holding the
> kernel lock.

Does this look like a good Summer of Code project to you?

Thor