[lttng-dev] [urcu] Google Summer of Code for userspace RCU

[Jérémie Galarneau]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Emilio G. Cota <cota at braap.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you might know--I see LTTng participated in it in previous
> years--the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application deadline
> for organisations is in 4 days.

My heart skipped a beat here! The applications start in 4 days, we
still have unti February 20th.

>
> I wonder if there would be interest in proposing urcu-related
> projects for GSoC. So far I've got one project idea:
>
> * Port liburcu to Windows, plus extensive testing on the BSD's
>   and Darwin so that support for those can be officially
>   claimed.  The motivation for this is that at least one
>   multi-platform open-source project (QEMU) is already using
>   RCU, and its lack of Windows support has forced them to
>   effectively fork RCU.[1]
>   I have no experience doing Windows development but I volunteer
>   to mentor if needed. Of course somebody with experience
>   developing for Windows would be more appropriate.
>
> I don't know under what open-source organisation this could
> be done, but since LLTng has a good track record with GSoC
> maybe that's the best option we have. Thoughts?

It could certainly be a project done as part of our organization. I'll
keep it in mind and see what Mathieu has to say, considering he's the
URCU maintainer.

Thanks!
Jérémie

>
> Thanks,
>
>                 Emilio
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/317087
>     for pull request. Final pull request here:
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/317371
>
>     I brought up the issue of (among other options) adding Windows
>     support in urcu to avoid the fork here:
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/317656/
>
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