Source
Enterprise customers

Category
Client/Server

Customer Need/Problem
Faster system responsiveness over large scale deployments.

Product Requirement 
Scalability improvements, better sharing of resources.

Comment
Most issues addressed in Geordi.

Eng Effort
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Eng Owner
Matthias Huetsch

Product Concept
The most urgent issue -- an excessive number of voluntary context switches per
second -- is addressed in Geordi, but further improvements can be achieved in
the following areas:

1) Replace current timer based concepts -- in particular the concept of an  idle
timer -- by event driven concepts, to further reduce the number of unnecessary
voluntary context switches.

2) Replace current assumption of cooperative multitasking or green threads with
the requirement of preemptive or native threads multitasking, to further reduce
the number of voluntary context switches.

3) Reduce amount and size of writeable data segments in shared libraries, to
reduce the amount of non-shareable private memory per process.

Functional Specification
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