Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:46:02 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:06:53PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Here's a thought. Maybe the next kernel summit needs to have a CC cluster > > BOF or whatever. I'd be happy to show up, describe what it is that I see > > and have you all try and poke holes in it. If the net result was that you > > walked away with the same picture in your head that I have that would be > > cool. Heck, I'll sponser it and buy beer and food if you like. > > It'd be nice if there were a prototype or something around to at least > get a feel for whether it's worthwhile and how it behaves. > > Most of the individual mechanisms have other uses ranging from playing > the good citizen under a hypervisor to just plain old filesharing, so > it should be vaguely possible to get a couple kernels talking and > farting around without much more than 1-2 P-Y's for bootstrapping bits > and some unspecified amount of pain for missing pieces of the above. > > Unfortunately, this means > (a) the box needs a hypervisor (or equivalent in native nomenclature)
how much of this need could be met with a native linux master and kernels running user-mode kernels? (your resource sharing would obviously not be that clean, but you could develop the tools to work across the kernel images this way)
David Lang
> (b) substantial outlay of kernel hacking time (who's doing this?) > > I'm vaguely attached to the idea of there being _something_ to assess, > otherwise it's difficult to ground the discussions in evidence, though > worse comes to worse, we can break down to plotting and scheming again. > > > -- wli > - > 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/ > - 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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