linux-kernel - Re: Would SSI clustering extensions be of interest to kernel community?

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Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:24:38 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Constantine Gavrilov" <constg@...sters.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Would SSI clustering extensions be of interest to kernel community?

On 16/10/06, Constantine Gavrilov <constg@...sters.com> wrote:
> I have implemented SSI (single system image) clustering extensions to
> Linux kernel in the form of a loadable module.
>
> It roughly mimics OpenMosix model of deputy/remote split (migrated
> processes leave a stub on the node where they were born and depend on
> the "home" node for IO).
>
> The implementation shares no code with Mosix/Open Mosix (was written
> from scratch), is much smaller, and is easily portable to multiple
> architectures.
>
> We are considering publication of this code and forming an open source
> project around it.
>
> I have two questions to the community:
>
> 1) Is community interested in using this code? Do users require SSI
> product in the era when everybody is talking about partitioning of
> machines and not clustering?

Some users require SSI clustering and some just like playing with it.
In any case, more options than those available currently can only be
good :)

> 2) Are kernel maintainers interested in clustering extensions to Linux
> kernel? Do they see any value in them? (Our code does not require kernel
> changes, but we are willing to submit it for inclusion if there is
> interest.)
>
I'm sure there's interrest in at least seeing it.
You should consider cleaning up your code according to
Documentation/CodingStyle first though (if it doesn't already follow
it) or your first batch of feedback is probably just going to be a
bunch of style cleanup requests ;)

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