Re: om2.6 What's currently showable ?

Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:49:21PM +0200, Florian Delizy wrote:
>   
>> Well actually, that's the case ... If I choose to use the 2.6 kernel, 
>> [CUT]
> Mmap is very complex syscall and very wide:
> - Anonymous private mmap is working already very well (that is the simplest)
> - File private mmap use to work, with the rinode thingie. not sure that's
>   still the case now .. not tested for a while as well.
> - Anonymous shared mmap are not suppose to work yet, and should send
>   back the process to the deputy. untested.
> - File shared mmap are not suppose to work either. untested
>
> all shared mmaping can be made to work though. with some
> read only mapping to catch write fault, and have handler to propagate
> stuff.. the performance now is another thing ..
>
>   
ok, I added that to the todolist as well

http://openmosix.snarc.org/wakka.php?wiki=ToDo

>> This choice is quite important to me, and moreover, I can only help 
>> continuing to develop oM if I can proove the feasability with oM2.6
>>     
>
> OM on 2.6 is definitely feasible. A experienced developer full time on
> it should complete it in few weeks I guess.
>
>   
>> I am not sure that would be enough ... though ... I guess that programs 
>> that we have to migrate are something like, using a shared lib, now the 
>> question is how would taht be done ... (I don't know yet). A simple 
>> scenario, if several programs are using a single shared lib, and all 
>> programs are spread over different cluster nodes, would that work ?
>>     
>
> yes it definitively works. a shared lib is anyway a private mapping (or
> a shared mapping over non-writable stuff, which is the same as private).
>
>   


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