From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752695AbZHZSUl (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:20:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752640AbZHZSUk (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:20:40 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f192.google.com ([209.85.222.192]:39986 "EHLO mail-pz0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752631AbZHZSUj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:20:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vGQ5NQlf2B6mnSFtFr08z7Vr0HhP7/+B7YdjHK8l+Z2zEAz0PhX3meCjLVeQ1o3PSS 9L0sgj01Wo0RYv5gnJnNUs+dEvnTvF68CSmLWN7dL9l7CtSlGLDavPOOAXCTN+PYpyxC 9kYEJ43+rLwgPr07NvDdpjXI0ZZgxpXodTzdM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:50:40 +0530 Message-ID: <1f808b4a0908261120h1a62c2e1o43891e4c26ec2803@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Student Project Idea From: Peter Chacko To: Satyam Shekhar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org As a student it helps if you come out of the inhibition that only kernel level projects are great and other disciplines don't worth a dime for a fresh grad. Kernel development is generally meant for experienced developers who already did non-kernel, system level development for some time. There are many areas which are less glamorous, but need the application of heavy computer science, and un-explored for which a brilliant grad student can contribute to. Indicative list is that i can think of off-hand is , 1) development of multi-core aware , concurrent data structures and algorithms that manipulate on them( which don't need locking for concurrency.(I mean shared-nothing, but concurrent) 2) study of performance on all system calls in a non-virtualized and virtualized systems, as it relates to storage and network IO. 3) Addition of an integrated data compression/decompression as part of Disk IO when VM images are written to disk. And you can also think of data de-dpulication across VM images. 4) ....and all other topics that others suggest. A one time kernel developer(Aix/Solaris/Windows/Linux) . On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Satyam Shekhar wrote: > Hi, > > I am a final year undergrad student at the Indian Institute of > Technology, Guwahati, India. I have my B.Tech project starting this > semester. I have a keen interest in kernel development and am looking > for topics for the project. > > I would be highly grateful if you could give me some suggestions or > ideas to work on in this regard. > > Regards > Satyam Shekhar > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Best regards, Peter Chacko NetDiox computing systems, Network storage & OS training and research. Bangalore, India. www.netdiox.com 080 2664 0708