From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ksummit-2010-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2010-discuss] checkpoint-restart: naked patch
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:53:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118095300.3ea74268@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101117162922.0f874a8e@kryten>
> The problems found in HPC often turn into more general problems down
> the track. I think back to the heated discussions we had around SMP back
> in the early 2000s when we had 32 core POWER4s and SGI had similar sized
> machines. Now a 24 core machine fits in 1U and can be purchased for
> under $5k. NUMA support, CPU affinity and multi queue scheduling are
> other areas that initially had a very small user base but have since
> become important features for many users.
I'd prefer the trees to be separate for testing purposes: it
doens't make much sense to have SMP support as a normal
kernel feature when most people won't have SMP anyway"
-- Linus Torvalds
Only in this case I can't help feeling that the virtualisation work
already bypassed C/R, solved the problem space that a lot of people care
about and then moved on.
Alan
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2010-11-04 16:04 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-04 20:45 ` Nathan Lynch
2010-11-06 6:48 ` Matt Helsley
2010-11-04 4:34 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-04 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-04 3:40 ` Kapil Arya
2010-11-04 8:05 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-04 16:44 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-05 9:28 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-05 23:18 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-06 10:13 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-06 0:36 ` Kapil Arya
2010-11-06 22:55 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-07 19:42 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-07 21:30 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-07 23:05 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-08 3:55 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-08 16:26 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-08 18:14 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-08 18:37 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-08 19:34 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-08 19:05 ` Dan Smith
2010-11-17 11:14 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 15:33 ` Dan Smith
2010-11-17 15:40 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 17:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-17 10:45 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 12:12 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-06 5:32 ` Matt Helsley
2010-11-06 15:01 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-06 20:40 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-06 22:41 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-07 18:49 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-07 21:59 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-17 11:57 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-17 15:39 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-11-17 15:46 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18 9:13 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-11-18 9:48 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18 20:13 ` Jose R. Santos
2010-11-19 3:54 ` Serge Hallyn
2010-11-18 19:53 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-19 4:10 ` Serge Hallyn
2010-11-19 14:04 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 14:36 ` Kirill Korotaev
2010-11-19 15:33 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 16:00 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-19 16:01 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-19 16:10 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 16:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-19 16:06 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 16:16 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-19 16:19 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 16:27 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-19 16:32 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 16:38 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-19 16:50 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-19 16:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-20 17:58 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-20 18:05 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-20 18:08 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-20 18:11 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-20 18:15 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-20 19:33 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-21 8:18 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-21 8:21 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-22 18:02 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-11-23 17:53 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-24 3:50 ` Kapil Arya
2010-11-25 16:04 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-29 4:09 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-21 22:41 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-22 17:34 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-22 17:18 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-17 22:17 ` Matt Helsley
2010-11-18 10:06 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18 20:25 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-07 21:44 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-07 23:31 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-05 22:24 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-04 4:03 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-04 9:43 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-04 12:48 ` Luck, Tony
2010-11-04 13:06 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-06 10:12 ` Matt Helsley
2010-11-06 11:03 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-07 22:59 ` Davide Libenzi
2010-11-08 2:32 ` david
2010-11-18 20:41 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-05 3:55 ` Kapil Arya
2010-11-05 11:57 ` Luck, Tony
2010-11-05 17:17 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-06 1:16 ` Matt Helsley
2010-11-06 4:06 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-06 5:18 ` Matt Helsley
2010-11-06 21:00 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-05 17:31 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2010-11-06 21:05 ` Oren Laadan
2010-11-08 16:55 ` Grant Likely
2010-11-08 21:01 ` Nathan Lynch
2010-11-11 6:27 ` Nathan Lynch
2010-11-17 5:29 ` Anton Blanchard
2010-11-17 11:08 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-18 9:53 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-11-18 12:27 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-11-19 6:33 ` Gene Cooperman
2010-11-21 23:20 ` Grant Likely
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