Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264251AbTICSdg (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:33:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264282AbTICS3k (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:29:40 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:46729 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264231AbTICSZk (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:25:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:26:45 -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: <20030903182645.GT4306@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> <20030903181550.GR4306@holomorphy.com> <20030903181552.GF5769@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030903181552.GF5769@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: 786 Lines: 18 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. -- 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/