Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750714AbWJPOYl (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:24:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750719AbWJPOYl (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:24:41 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:47156 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750714AbWJPOYk (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:24:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rUwZY40u2YQIqeJKVUPEPwZZN7/CmRCc/LrRBAzq6p2uPb5EFyx47uOByGOb0brDdqqKq/YFCIrSjGy6ttOaWbI7PfXtr38yGKtvBWiMh4ZgDUIvJnBgzfKt/A2XMxJJahghrXrdDWJq072Pqeyn6Ec3at5QSsNyjV5wwhIhonc= Message-ID: <9a8748490610160724l2a5c6cd6k1a984d10e947eda6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:24:38 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Constantine Gavrilov" Subject: Re: Would SSI clustering extensions be of interest to kernel community? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <45337FE3.8020201@qlusters.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45337FE3.8020201@qlusters.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1904 Lines: 45 On 16/10/06, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > I have implemented SSI (single system image) clustering extensions to > Linux kernel in the form of a loadable module. > > It roughly mimics OpenMosix model of deputy/remote split (migrated > processes leave a stub on the node where they were born and depend on > the "home" node for IO). > > The implementation shares no code with Mosix/Open Mosix (was written > from scratch), is much smaller, and is easily portable to multiple > architectures. > > We are considering publication of this code and forming an open source > project around it. > > I have two questions to the community: > > 1) Is community interested in using this code? Do users require SSI > product in the era when everybody is talking about partitioning of > machines and not clustering? Some users require SSI clustering and some just like playing with it. In any case, more options than those available currently can only be good :) > 2) Are kernel maintainers interested in clustering extensions to Linux > kernel? Do they see any value in them? (Our code does not require kernel > changes, but we are willing to submit it for inclusion if there is > interest.) > I'm sure there's interrest in at least seeing it. You should consider cleaning up your code according to Documentation/CodingStyle first though (if it doesn't already follow it) or your first batch of feedback is probably just going to be a bunch of style cleanup requests ;) -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/