Re: Scaling noise

William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04T01:32:25Z

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:06:53PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Here's a thought. Maybe the next kernel summit needs to have a CC cluster
> BOF or whatever. I'd be happy to show up, describe what it is that I see
> and have you all try and poke holes in it. If the net result was that you
> walked away with the same picture in your head that I have that would be
> cool. Heck, I'll sponser it and buy beer and food if you like.

It'd be nice if there were a prototype or something around to at least
get a feel for whether it's worthwhile and how it behaves.

Most of the individual mechanisms have other uses ranging from playing
the good citizen under a hypervisor to just plain old filesharing, so
it should be vaguely possible to get a couple kernels talking and
farting around without much more than 1-2 P-Y's for bootstrapping bits
and some unspecified amount of pain for missing pieces of the above.

Unfortunately, this means
(a) the box needs a hypervisor (or equivalent in native nomenclature)
(b) substantial outlay of kernel hacking time (who's doing this?)

I'm vaguely attached to the idea of there being _something_ to assess,
otherwise it's difficult to ground the discussions in evidence, though
worse comes to worse, we can break down to plotting and scheming again.

-- wli