From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jacob Gorm Hansen Subject: Re: Xen as a kernel module Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:16:25 -0800 Message-ID: <41FAC7C9.2080407@diku.dk> References: <39CC97884CA19A4D8D6296FE94357BCB0161A804@swsmsx404> <41F70A8F.9030200@diku.dk> <200501271324.57039.maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Ronald G. Minnich" Cc: Mark Williamson , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kip Macy List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Mark Williamson wrote: > > >>Won't many people running this sort of workload be using specialised >>network hardware anyhow? A modern cluster interconnect (Infiniband, for >>instance) will likely support direct IO to user level applications - >>this could still be done under Xen. > > > that's been our assumption. I guess so, though the clusters I have seen have all been Ethernet-only, due to the lower cost. Has anyone had any experience using Xen with this kind of hardware? Jacob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl