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SubjectRe: Would SSI clustering extensions be of interest to kernel community?
Hi!

> I have implemented SSI (single system image) clustering extensions to
> Linux kernel in the form of a loadable module.
>
> It roughly mimics OpenMosix model of deputy/remote split (migrated
> processes leave a stub on the node where they were born and depend on
> the "home" node for IO).
>
> The implementation shares no code with Mosix/Open Mosix (was written
> from scratch), is much smaller, and is easily portable to multiple
> architectures.
>
> We are considering publication of this code and forming an open source
> project around it.
>
> I have two questions to the community:
>
> 1) Is community interested in using this code? Do users require SSI
> product in the era when everybody is talking about partitioning of
> machines and not clustering?

Yes... Remember that some people run hypervisors to enable process
migration.

> 2) Are kernel maintainers interested in clustering extensions to Linux
> kernel? Do they see any value in them? (Our code does not require kernel
> changes, but we are willing to submit it for inclusion if there is
> interest.)

I'd say so.
Pavel


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