Re: tickless kernel - high level roadmap ideas

[Ice Cream <icecream484%outlook.com@localhost>]

> I've been working a little bit on how to tackle tickless in the
> kernel. I'll be hoping to send some preliminary patches later this month
> or so - so this is mostly an email to co-ordinate with anyone else
> working or aiming to work on similar things.

Hi, I'm aiming to work on this project as well.

> One of the first things needed will be to discover and manage underlying
> hardware timers which can interrupt at arbitrary (and/or repetitive)
> timeouts. Therefore, one of the first things I'll be working on is how
> to abstract this management. Since we need to support a variety of
> platform/CPU/CPU-package configurations, this will be the part with a
> large number of cross platform dependencies.

Since you'll be working on this, I'll start with researching about the next step,
that is, the callout variants using bintime and the usage of the new timer API.

-- IC