Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:26:45 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:15:50AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Independent operating system instances running under a hypervisor don't >> qualify as a cache-coherent cluster that I can tell; it's merely dynamic >> partitioning, which is great, but nothing to do with clustering or SMP.
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:15:52AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > they can map memory between instances
That's just enough of a hypervisor API for the kernel to do the rest, which it is very explicitly not doing. It also has other uses.
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