Kernel_team_meeting

OS Status Meeting Minutes

January 14, 2008

Steve Bergwerff

Important Trinity 2 dates to be aware of:
- M4 test review later today
- M5 build is tomorrow

Brian Stecher

Provided first part of kernel talk for support team training.
Had been going through code inspections for locking done on Memory Partitioning. More left to do.
Resolved Trinity2 PR 54546. One of the test machines would only let you login as root.
Working on Trinity2 PR 54559 SMP mapping issue as top priority. All other activities are on hold.

Mike Kisel

Have been working on two Trinity 2 test stopper PRs that have been there for last 2 milestone builds but can't reproduce the issue. Working with build team to understand why this is the case.
Renamed APS utility to AP.
Have two outstanding code inspections out for review on Memory Partitioning.
Waiting on review from Brian and Attilla on potential locking issues with Memory Partiioning.
Working on PR 43611 for Memory Partitioning.
Generally working on solidifying Memory Partitioning for Trinity2 and seeing what can be put in for tomorrow's build.

Attilla Danko

Had a meeting on adaptive partitioning with a large customer.
Helping out on Memory Partitioning with code reviews and solutions for SMP mutual exclusion.
Working on Trinity 2 PR 52847 for issues with one of the ppc boards.
Responding to questions regarding process certifications.
Had a meeting on better integration of static analysis tools into the development infrastructure.

Colin Burgess

Fixed Trinity 2 PR 54563. Customer reported issue with devctl call on SMP.
Working on tiger team for getting a full head branch using the gcc 4.2.1 compiler.
Working on merge of Trinity2 branches needed for a customer to continue testing. Need to meet with customer ot understand some of their proposed changes.
Working on a optimization in Trinity2 that was initially implemented as a temporary workaround but now require a full solution.
Involved in compiler discussions with a customer on gcc 4.2.1.

Scott Miller

Focusing on analysis of Trinity2 benchmark results. Tried running the benchmarks on a laptop. Seeing only improvmements in the numbers. Will verify that the same compiler version is being used for the comparisons.
Looking at Trinity2 PR 54433 for a test stopper issue with pathname corruption.
Attended Brian's kernel training seesion.

Doug Bailey

Working on Trinity2 PR 53696 and PR 52939 to fix two test case failures. Difficult to reproduce.
Fixed PR 53959 and a PSP was created and tested.
Working on some experimental code for SH SMP
Planning to have Trinity2 PR 52925 fix in for this weeks milestone build.

Shiv Nagarajan

Working on three customer reported issues for Trinity 2.
- PR 53749 for a select() issue with telnet. Seem to have discovered the problem Tested it and waiting on a code review.
- PR 53750 for a reported crash triggered by a qnet test. Still unable to reproduce it.
- PR 54903 for a reported crash crash seen under low memory conditions.

David Joo

Peter Mitsis

Working on Tirnity 2 PR 54456 for a problem mounting a flash device. Problem appears to be a loop in a link list in procmgr.

Angelina Gomes