Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mark Harburn" <> | Subject | OFFTOPIC: kernel "swap" and SMP | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:54:18 -0000 |
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Pardon my ignorance. I was wondering if it was possible to do a kernel "swap".
I.E. on a SMP machine split it off into a virtual machine like that software that was on freshmeat recently, it continues running, the other processor handles the compile of the kernel, and then the kernels communicate all the scheduling/processing/ram etc and "swap" to the new kernel. Keeping the uptime and continuing to stay up. I heard of something like this on SGI but I may be wrong. It's probably far more complex to pull of than what I put here... just wondering if it was possible. If it was possible on a single processor machine even better....
something to discuss anyway. Thanks Mark Harburn.
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