Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:17:58 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Would SSI clustering extensions be of interest to kernel community? |
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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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