Re: Scaling noise

William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04T03:15:37Z

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:12:53PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Virtualized devices are backed by real devices at some level, so the
>> distance from the node's physical location to the device's then matters.

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:49:04PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Go read what I've written about this. There is no sharing, devices are
> local or remote. You share in the page cache only, if you want fast access
> to a device you ask it to put the data in memory and you map it. It's
> absolutely as fast as an SMP. With no locking.

Given the lack of an implementation I'm going to have to take this
claim as my opportunity to bow out of tonight's discussion.

I'd love to hear more about it when there's something more substantial
to examine.

-- wli