Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264225AbTICSSG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:18:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264179AbTICSQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:16:10 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:36489 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264191AbTICSOm (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:14:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:15:50 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Larry McVoy , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030903181550.GR4306@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Larry McVoy , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030903111934.GF10257@work.bitmover.com> <20030903180037.GP4306@holomorphy.com> <20030903180547.GD5769@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030903180547.GD5769@work.bitmover.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 991 Lines: 23 At some point in the past, I wrote: >> The lines of reasoning presented against tightly coupled systems are >> grossly flawed. On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > [etc]. > Only problem with your statements is that IBM has already implemented all > of the required features in VM. And multiple Linux instances are running > on it today, with shared disks underneath so they don't replicate all the > stuff that doesn't need to be replicated, and they have shared memory > across instances. 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. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/