[coyotos-dev] Hi + some stuff I found researching

[Haplo]

Hello to coyotos-dev. I suppose I'll start with a bit of unnecessary  
background, but at least it can give you some idea of my level of  
understanding of all this.
I'm a 20 year old computer engineering undergrad currently living  
outside charlotte (however this is soon to change), and really I  
stumbled across this while randomly researching related topics. I was  
aware of KeyKOS a while back after I got an interest in kernel  
architecture, and actually planned to reimplement it with L4  
optimizations some time in the undisclosed future. It was only  
recently that I came across coyotos and found it had already been  
done. So, accordingly I read through most of the documents found here  
and expanded my research to better understand the topics being  
discussed.

The useless information aside, I do actually have something  
potentially useful to add here. I very recently was doing some  
unrelated research (on objective-C) which led me to self-modifying  
code and/or dynamically generated code (don't bother asking how those  
things got chained together), and eventually came across a rather  
obscure kernel I'd never heard of before. This being the Synthesis  
kernel. The general description of it was "very fast, using  
dynamically generated code and almost object-oriented design", which  
I took critically, but decided to investigate further. This actually  
turned out to be harder than I assumed since very little -useful-  
information on synthesis is floating around. I did, however, manage  
to obtain an outline specification written by the original designer.  
After reading through it numerous times, doing research on some of  
the obscure terms he uses, and comparing it to coyotos, I believe not  
only that the techniques used could be applied to coyotos, but that  
they might offer significant performance improvement. Furthermore, he  
faced similar SMP scaling issues that you are currently having, and  
his solution may work quite well for you, as well.

With that said, I confess that I'm fairly naive in the field, perhaps  
much less so than the average person, but I am by no means an expert.  
As such most of this is to a point speculative, however if you AREN'T  
familiar with the design, I would at least ask that you review the  
document and decide this for yourself. I can provide it (it's a pdf  
scan of some original typed text) if necessary.