Re: [CI] Linux kernel Cluster Framework 0.2

[Aneesh K. <ane...@gm...>]

On 9/16/06, Smith, Stan <sta...@in...> wrote:
>
> This juncture seems like a reasonable time to start a discussion of
> heterogeneous ICS networks beneath the transport independent LCF.
>
> What are your intentions towards supporting heterogeneous ICS networks?
>
> ICS message routing & forwarding?
>
> Thoughts on the subjects?

Linux kernel currently lacks a framework which one can use to write
cluster services. The idea of cleaning up CI is to make sure that we
can use CI as a framework. For that i removed the CLMS from the kernel
and introduced configfs based configuration. The first release which
was released as CI 0.1 contain the result of that work. This confused
with previous releases of CI. So  i decided to rename CI to LKCF. The
name cluster framwork should get some interest in the code too. The
purpose of 0.2 release of LKCF was to share your work of using
infiniband as the interconnect. That goes with the idea of release
early . My idea with LKCF is to take CFS and clusterwide shared memory
to the generic kernel.

-aneesh