Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:32:53 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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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.
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