Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:01:02 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: TOE brain dump |
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> David Lang wrote: > > also how many of the standard kernel features could you turn off? > > You don't turn them off - you just don't run them. What I'm > suggesting is not a separate system that runs a stripped-down > Linux kernel, but rather a device that looks like another > node in a NUMA system. > > There might be a point in completely excluding subsystems > that will never be used on that NIC anyway, but that's already > an optimization.
I would think that it's much more difficult to run NUMA across different types of CPU's then it would be to run a seperate kernel on the NIC.
I'm thinking clustering instead of single-system-image.
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