Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751936AbWJWMbe (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:31:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751937AbWJWMbe (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:31:34 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:13992 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751913AbWJWMbd (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:31:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:17:58 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Constantine Gavrilov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Would SSI clustering extensions be of interest to kernel community? Message-ID: <20061023081758.GA11620@elf.ucw.cz> References: <45337FE3.8020201@qlusters.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45337FE3.8020201@qlusters.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1502 Lines: 42 Hi! > 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? Yes... Remember that some people run hypervisors to enable process migration. > 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'd say so. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.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/