Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [RFC] Revised CKRM release

Rik van Riel
2004-04-30T19:04:15Z

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> I'd hate to see this in the kernel unless there's a very strong need
> for it and no way to solve it at a nicer layer of abstraction, e.g.
> userland virtual machines ala uml/umlinux.

User Mode Linux could definitely be an option for implementing
resource management, provided that the overhead can be kept
low enough.

For these purposes, "low enough" could be as much as 30%
overhead, since that would still allow people to grow the
utilisation of their server from a typical 10-20% to as
much as 40-50%.

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