Messages in this thread | | | From | Greg Lindahl <> | Subject | Re: Process migration (was: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS...) | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:50:04 -0400 (EDT) |
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> This has been suggested many times, but I am going to suggest this > again. I honestly see this problem as half user space, half kernel > space. I also see it as a solvable solution.
The Legion distributed OS does it completely at user level. As a result it has some limitations, but I think it's a cool solution.
> Process migration: You tell the kernel, I want to take this process > home with me in a file to load on the _SAME_ archetecure, with hopefully > the same file system, and definitely the _SAME_ OS.
Mosix does this in Linux, Condor does this in Linux, and there is a set of kernel patches from someone else that does this.
-- g
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