Google Summer of Code Ideas

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers post-secondary students an opportunity to be paid for contributing to an open source project over a three month period.

This page contains project ideas for upcoming Google Summer of Code.

Suggested ideas

Post-copy for shared memory and hugetlbfs

Summary: TODO: Short description of the project

TODO: Detailed description of the project.

Links:

• Wiki links to relevant material
• External links to mailing lists or web sites

Details:

• Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
• Language: C
• Mentor: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
• Suggested by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

Optimize logging engine

Summary: TODO: Short description of the project

TODO: Detailed description of the project.

Links:

• Wiki links to relevant material
• External links to mailing lists or web sites

Details:

• Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
• Language: C
• Mentor: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
• Suggested by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>

Add support for checkpoint/restore of cgroups v2

Summary: TODO: Short description of the project

TODO: Detailed description of the project.

Links:

• Wiki links to relevant material
• External links to mailing lists or web sites

Details:

• Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
• Language: C
• Suggested by: Person who suggested the idea

Add support for checkpoint/restore of CORK-ed UDP socket

Summary: TODO: Short description of the project

TODO: Detailed description of the project.

Links:

• Wiki links to relevant material
• External links to mailing lists or web sites

Details:

• Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
• Language: C
• Mentor: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
• Suggested by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>

Optimize the pre-dump algorithm

Summary: Optimize the pre-dump algorithm to avoid vmsplice()-ing the whole memory

TODO: Detailed description of the project.

Links:

• Wiki links to relevant material
• External links to mailing lists or web sites

Details:

• Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
• Language: C
• Mentor: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
• Suggested by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>

Anonymize image files

Summary: TODO: Short description of the project

TODO: Detailed description of the project.

Links:

• Wiki links to relevant material
• External links to mailing lists or web sites

Details:

• Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
• Language: C
• Mentor: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
• Suggested by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>

Porting crit functionalities in GO

Summary: TODO: Short description of the project

TODO: Detailed description of the project.

Links:

• Wiki links to relevant material
• External links to mailing lists or web sites

Details:

• Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
• Language: Go
• Mentor: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com>
• Suggested by: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com>