Re: Scaling noise

William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03T18:33:36Z

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:15:50AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Independent operating system instances running under a hypervisor don't
>> qualify as a cache-coherent cluster that I can tell; it's merely dynamic
>> partitioning, which is great, but nothing to do with clustering or SMP.

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:15:52AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> they can map memory between instances

That's just enough of a hypervisor API for the kernel to do the rest,
which it is very explicitly not doing. It also has other uses.

-- wli