From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264307AbTIDAHX (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:07:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264330AbTIDAHW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:07:22 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:4617 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264307AbTIDAHV (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:07:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:07:33 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Alan Cox , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030904000733.GG16361@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Martin J. Bligh" , William Lee Irwin III , Alan Cox , "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030903180037.GP4306@holomorphy.com> <20030903180547.GD5769@work.bitmover.com> <20030903181550.GR4306@holomorphy.com> <1062613931.19982.26.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030903194658.GC1715@holomorphy.com> <105370000.1062622139@flay> <20030903212119.GX4306@holomorphy.com> <115070000.1062624541@flay> <20030903215135.GY4306@holomorphy.com> <116940000.1062625566@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <116940000.1062625566@flay> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:46:06PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > Some of these proposals also beg the question of "who's going to write > > the rest of the hypervisor supporting this stuff?", which is ominous. > > Yeah, it needs lots of hard work by bright people. It's not easy. Has OpenMosix done anything to help in this regard, or is it unmaintainable? ISTR, that much of its code is asm, and going from 2.4.18 to 19 took a long time to stabalize (that was the last time I used OM)