From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:27:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:27:23 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:55247 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:27:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1065FD.3F8D7EDF@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:27:09 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cesar.da.silva@cyberdude.com Cc: kernellist Subject: Re: Please help me fill in the blanks. In-Reply-To: <20010527021808.80979.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cesar Da Silva wrote: > The features that I'm wondering about are: > * Dynamic Processor Resilience is this fault tolerance? I think if a CPU croaks, you are dead. There are patches for hot swap cpu support, but I haven't seen any CPU fault tolerance patches that can handle a dead processor > * Dynamic Memory Resilience RAM fault tolerance? There was a patch a long time ago which detected bad ram, and would mark those memory clusters as unuseable at boot. However that is clearly not dynamic. If your memory croaks, your kernel will experience random corruptions > * Dynamic Page Sizing no > * Live Upgrade LOBOS will let one Linux kernel boot another, but that requires a boot step, so it is not a live upgrade. so, no, afaik > * Alternative I/O Pathing be less vague > * HSM patches exist, I believe > * TCP selective acknowledgement (SACK) yes > * Service Location Protocol (SLP) don't know > * ATM IP switching yes, I believe > * SOCKS 5 support yes, via userspace apps/libs > * Multilink PPP yes > * TCP/IP Gratuitous ARP (RFC 2002) not sure > * Path MTU Discovery (RFC 1191) yes > * Path MTU Discovery over UDP not sure, but I think so > * IP Multipath Routing yes > The questions I have about the features above are: > * Are any of the above features implemented in the > kernel? If yes, where can I read (url-link to the > article, paper... please) about it? http://google.com/ -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024 | MandrakeSoft |