Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:58:22 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:51:35PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > At some point in the past, I wrote: > >> SSI clusters have most of the same problems, > >> really. Managing the systems just becomes "managing the nodes" because > >> they're not called systems, and you have to go through some (possibly > >> automated, though not likely) hassle to figure out the right way to > >> spread things across nodes, which virtualizes pieces to hand to which > >> nodes running which loads, etc. > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:29:01PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > That's where I disagree - it's much easier for the USER because an SSI > > cluster works out all the load balancing shit for itself, instead of > > pushing the problem out to userspace. It's much harder for the KERNEL > > programmer, sure ... but we're smart ;-) And I'd rather solve it once, > > properly, in the right place where all the right data is about all > > the apps running on the system, and the data about the machine hardware. > > This is only truly feasible when the nodes are homogeneous. They will > not be as there will be physical locality (esp. bits like device > proximity) concerns.
Huh? The nodes are homogeneous. Devices are either local or proxied. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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