From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Javier Malave <javier.malave@narfindustries.com>
Cc: bx@narfindustries.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ah@narfindustries.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/9] Popcorn Linux Distributed Thread Execution
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 19:46:31 +0200
Message-ID: <20200507174631.GE1216@bug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1588127445.git.javier.malave@narfindustries.com>
On Wed 2020-04-29 15:32:47, Javier Malave wrote:
> This patch set adds the Popcorn Distributed Thread Execution support
> to the kernel. It is based off of Linux 5.2 commit 72a20ce. We are
> looking for feedback on design and implementation from the community.
You may want to cc linux-api mailing list...?
> Popcorn Linux is a Linux kernel-based software stack that enables
> applications to execute, with a shared code base, on distributed hosts.
> Popcorn allows applications to start execution on a particular host and
> migrate, at run-time, to a remote host. Multi-threaded applications may
> migrate any particular thread to any remote host.
Sounds like a lot of fun.
> Popcorn Linux implements a software-based distributed shared memory
> by extending Linux's virtual memory subsystem and it enables processes
> on different machines to observe a common and coherent virtual address
> space. Coherency of virtual memory pages of different hosts is ensured
> using a reader-replicate/writer-invalidate, page-level consistency protocol.
Sounds interesting. I guess this needs very, very fast network. Do you have some performance numbers
somewhere?
Best regards,
Pavel
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2020-04-29 19:32 ` Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 1/9] Core Popcorn Changes Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 2/9] Add x86 specifc files for Popcorn Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 3/9] Temporary revert L1TF mitigation " Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 4/9] Popcorn system call additions Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 5/9] Popcorn Utility Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 6/9] Process Server for Popcorn Distributed Thread Execution Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 7/9] Virtual Memory Address Server for " Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 8/9] Page " Javier Malave
2020-04-29 19:32 ` [RFC 9/9] Add Popcorn Message Layer and socket support Javier Malave
2020-05-07 17:46 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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