* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen Frost wrote:
> 
> > 	Now, the interesting bit here is that the processes can grow to be
> > pretty large (200M+, up as high as 500M, higher if we let it ;) ) and what
> > happens with MOSIX is that entire processes get sent over the wire to
> > other machines for work.  MOSIX will also attempt to rebalance the load on
> > all of the machines in the cluster and whatnot so it can often be moving
> > processes back and forth.
> 
> then you'll love the zerocopy patch :-) Just use sendfile() or specify
> MSG_NOCOPY to sendmsg(), and you'll see effective memory-to-card
> DMA-and-checksumming on cards that support it.

	Excellent, this patch certainly sounds interesting which is why
I've been following this discussion.  Once the MOSIX patch for 2.4 comes
out I think I'm going to tinker with this and see if I can get MOSIX to
use these methods.

> the discussion with Stephen is about various device-to-device schemes.
> (which Mosix i dont think wants to use. Mosix wants to use memory to
> device zero-copy, right?)

	Yes, very much so actually now that I think about it.  Alot of
memory->device and device->memory work going on.  I was mainly replying
to the idea of clustering since that's what MOSIX is all about.


		Stephen
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