Re: om2.6 What's currently showable ?

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:07:41AM +0200, Florian Delizy wrote:
> quoting Vincent Hanquez :
> > we miss, a working OpenMosix  :) 
> Well, that's kind of frightening ;) I need to make a demo to my boss in 
> a few time, showing that openMosix can migrate processes to a node, and 
> execute those tasks there, is this even working ? (I hope yes).

A working openMosix for LKML review, must be almost perfect. the code is
probably not PREEMPT safe, nor it's completly SMP safe. it's hooking
stuff that's it probably shouldn't as well. I slowly cleaning issues I
already know, or are least it's on my TODO list (ex: moving /proc stuff).

yes we are kind of working. an assembler program that does nothing (use
to) work. As well as some program with selected syscalls (use to work)

Now a real program, is probably going to fail by doing fancy syscalls
(fork family, execve, shmxxx, ...), unless it's doing something really
dumb (write, read, compute, write, read).

I haven't had time and motivation to test anything since a long time now
.. mostly because I lack a test computer and I got lots of activities
outside of oM. I use to be OK, by testing oM with Xen, but that's a pain
to patch everytime the xen kernel, send everything where I got a testing
machine (Cambridge Computer Lab) etc...

> In the same idea than the Todo list in the wiki, can we add a feature 
> list, which explicitely state what's working, and what's not ?? (that 
> would help me for instance to show the viability of openMosix to non 
> developer people) ...

sure, help yourself :)

-- 
Vincent Hanquez

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