Work Done in the month of October 2006

First two weeks

• Working with Bossa and trying to figure out whether it could be used to design an initial prototype for the kernel coop_poll implementation.
• At the same time, reading basic kernel codes from Robert Love. Covered chapters 1 through 10 (everything except the file system related chapters).

Last two weeks and the first week of November

• Gave up Bossa. Will use Xen instead as a tool for kernel development.
• Setting up of subversion repositories for source version control. Also setting up and getting used to tools like lxr.
• Setting up Xen.
• Initial port of user level heap library into kernel. Successful kernel build.
• More reading into actual kernel code from the O'reilly book.

Work Done in the month of November 2006.

Second week (November 5 - November 8 )

• Attended OSDI, Seattle, WA.

Last three weeks

• Completed coop_poll implementation in the kernel.
• Completed user level modifications to qsf. Added an extra command line switch to qsf so as to use coop_poll call instead of shared memory.
• Implemented kernel compile menu option for coop_poll. Also inserted coop stats feature in the kernel.
• More readings.

Work Done in the month of December 2006.

• Currently debugging the kernel coop_poll call and user level code as well. Expecting to be done in 2 weeks (before Christmas:))