HANDLING BLOCKING SYSCALLS

• What kind of kernel assistance do we need?

DATA STRUCTURE FOR TASKS THAT DO NOT YET HAVE A CORE (Slow path for thread creation)

• Single Global Queue vs Per-Core Queues needs an experiment.

LOGICAL CONCURRENCY VS DESIRED PARALLELISM (CORE COUNT)

• When should we ask the kernel for more cores, and when should we return cores to the kernel?

TIMING GUARANTEES UNDER COOPERATIVE THREADING

• Can we have any kind of timing guarantees without preemption?

PRIORITIES AND STARVATION

BENEFITS / SELLING POINTS / CONTRIBUTIONS

LOAD BALANCING BETWEEN CORES

USER API

KERNEL API

CORE NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL

Mostly Solved Issues

MINIMUM TIME TO SCHEDULE A THREAD ONTO ANOTHER CORE

• What is the correct architecture for the fast path, and what is the lowest possible time to schedule to another core?

DEFINITION OF CORE AWARE

• Knowledge of the number of nature of physical cores must move up the stack from the kernel into user-level libraries and possibly into applications