Re: [Publicity] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add ARINC653 scheduler maintainers.

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On gio, 2013-09-12 at 12:12 -0400, Nate Studer wrote:
> On 9/12/2013 4:00 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
>
> > So, I was wondering whether you'd be up for writing a piece on the Xen
> > Project's blog (http://blog.xenproject.org) with a bit  more of
> > information about it for all the Xen users and developers.
> >
> > Something like, how the scheduler works (in short), what the typical use
> > cases are, what are its strengths and weaknesses, what led to its
> > introduction in Xen, why Xen, what do you currently use it for (if you
> > can say that in public), and stuff like that...
> 
> We would be more than happy to write a blog post about it.  An ARINC653
> domain scheduler is from a technical perspective pretty boring as far
> as real-time schedulers go, but it does have some nice time determinism
> properties, which lends to its use in safety critical fields.
>
That is fantastic news. :-)

And about it being boring, well, having been a researcher I have a true
passion for super-fancy and super-complicated schedulers, with
astonishing theoretical foundations... Despite the fact that they tend
not to work in practice! :-D

That is why, especially after having left academia, I developed a true
passion for small and simple schedulers that work too! :-P

Anyway, that thing about determinism (i.e., what are those properties,
why and where they are useful, etc), is definitely something worth
talking about in the blog post.

> > Looking up in the Wiki, I did find this
> > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/ARINC653_Scheduler, that has most of the
> > technical information required to use it, but is surely not enough to
> > satisfy my curiosity! :-P :-P
> 
> We should probably update this page, while we are at it.
>
Well, that would be great, yes.

> We are pretty flexible, so whatever schedule works for you should be fine.
> 
Ok, so why don't we get started and, when you'll be done, we will see
when exactly to publish it.

For being able to write a post you should go to our blog Website and
create an account. It's a Wordpress instance and it's here
(http://blog.xen.org/)... It should be pretty straightforward.

Once you have a userid, send it to me in an e-mail, and I can give you
the required permissions to start writing an article. While writing, and
also when finished, save it as a draft and send a link to the draft
itself either to me or (even better!) to this list, for letting people
review it (just like with code).

If you encounter any issue, do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)

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