From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263536AbTIHTgU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:36:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263552AbTIHTgU (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:36:20 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:4366 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263536AbTIHTgT (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:36:19 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Scaling noise Date: 8 Sep 2003 19:27:29 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20030903040327.GA10257@work.bitmover.com> <20030903124716.GE2359@wind.cocodriloo.com> <1062603063.1723.91.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> <200309040350.31949.phillips@arcor.de> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1063049249 9478 192.168.12.62 (8 Sep 2003 19:27:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <200309040350.31949.phillips@arcor.de>, Daniel Phillips wrote: | As for Karim's work, it's a quintessentially flashy trick to make two UP | kernels run on a dual processor. It's worth doing, but not because it blazes | the way forward for ccClusters. It can be the basis for hot kernel swap: | migrate all the processes to one of the two CPUs, load and start a new kernel | on the other one, migrate all processes to it, and let the new kernel restart | the first processor, which is now idle. UML running on a sibling, anyone? Interesting concept, not necessarily useful. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.