From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 21:42:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 21:42:21 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.24]:53381 "HELO mail.unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 21:42:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 03:42:08 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= To: Ben Ford Cc: "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" , Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU hot swap for 2.4.3 + s390 support Message-ID: <20010507034208.A16593@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= , Ben Ford , "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" , Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010505063726.A32232@va.samba.org> <20010506011553.A11297@zed.dlitz.net> <3AF584A2.4050208@kalifornia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3AF584A2.4050208@kalifornia.com>; from ben@kalifornia.com on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:06:42AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:06:42AM -0700, Ben Ford wrote: > Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > > >Hey, this is cool. > > > >How far away is the capability to "teleport" processes from one machine to > >another over the network? Think of the uptime! > > > > It is here. Look at Mosix. No. Not for uptime. The "responsibility" for process completion does not get delegated. A process will always be bound to it's home-node (in mosix terms), no matter how far it's "teleported". If the home-node fails, the process won't know what hit it. There are good reasons why mosix let's processes depend on their home nodes. This is not meant as backstabbing mosix, it's a great environment for a lot of things. But it's not the universal silver bullet. -- ................................................................ : jakob@unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............: