Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Sharing RAM over the 'net (was Re: Process Migration on Linux - Impossible?) | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:43:26 +0800 | From | Stephen Williams <> |
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> Migrating a thread on a distributed memory environment is impossible, > since they share everything but the stack. They just _have_ to be on the > same computer, so that things happen the way they should.
I read some time ago some papers on algorithms for distributed shared memory that worked at the page level. Linux has a vm_operations structure for memory segments, including the stack segment, so in principle it is possible to even have different threads of the same process of different hosts.
If the vm_operations were better described, someone might eb able to do the necessary work. (hint, hint:-)
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