> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:01 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> The kernel newbies community often gets inquiries from CS students who
>> need a project for their studies and would like to do something with
>> the Linux kernel, but would also like their code to be useful to the
>> community afterwards.
>>
>> In order to make it easier for them, I am trying to put together a
>> page with projects that:
>> - Are self contained enough that the students can implement the
>> project by themselves, since that is often a university requirement.
>> - Are self contained enough that Linux could merge the code (maybe
>> with additional changes) after the student has been working on it
>> for a few months.
>> - Are large enough to qualify as a student project, luckily there is
>> flexibility here since we get inquiries for anything from 6 week
>> projects to 6 month projects.
>>
>> If you have ideas on what projects would be useful, please add them
>> to this page (or email me):
>>
>>
http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects
>
> How about this in the Device Mapper raid-1/mirror code?
> /* FIXME: add read balancing */
>
> That comment has been in there for many releases. I've wanted read
> balancing for several servers and had all sorts of ideas about it, like
> adding functions to the underlying device queues to return a "queuing
> cost" to determine which is the best queue to add the read request. I
> think that could work better for queues like CFQ than the MD
> closest-head.
>
> An implementation would also need to be benchmarked against the MD
> raid-1.
>
> Along with the time to submit it to LKML, get it reviewed and polish it
> up, it might make a good student project.