Re: Process Migration on Linux - Impossible?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:50:53 +0100 (BST)


> Most of this stuff would not be of intrest to the linux community in
> general. This all should be merged with Beowolf and become "Cluster Linux"
> and be kept seperate from the main tree, hopefully there would be enough
> intrest to keep the cluster linux upto date.

I beg to disagree. Its simply a matter of how you structure your code. All
the "cluster" stuff changes is adding some fields to each "object" structure
eg file now starts

struct file
{
CLUSTER_OBJECT
[normal fields]
}

and preprocessor magic does that. Also syscalls simply require we swap
the syscall table for cluster_sys_xx entry points, and provide
linux/cluster/*.c which will call sys_xx for local objects. I see no
need to seperate the trees