Re: [SSI] The SSI ia64 port is in.

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@di...>]

Hi, 

Congrats... So one more architecture to the list. wow!!!!!.

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 07:37, John Byrne wrote:
> 
> CI is not done, but it shouldn't take much work to finish. (I'm not in 
> any hurry.)  Load-levelling won't build; since the load-levelling code 
> uses floating point and this a problem on most architectures, the plan 
> is to modify it to use scaled integer arithmetic.

I had some discussion with Moshe Bar regarding the same because for
Alpha also it is disabled. He suggested either to wait for the new load
leveling algorithm he is working on or to move o scaled integer. Any how
the open mosix team is working on a IA64 port may be that would be 
helpful to us. But if it take them too much time to come up with the
port I guess we should work towards it. 

> 
> I've checked out fresh and built SSI i386 and booted it (CFS). I'm 
> building UML. (I don't have a UML test setup at the moment, so I don't 
> plan to test it.) I'm building ia64 and will test that. I'll let you all 
> know later how they both do.
> 
> Aneesh, if I've broken alpha (and I probably have), I'm sorry.
> 

I will test this part. But i need some time. May be one week . Is that
ok ? ( Right now i am a bit busy.)


Can we list down what we can expect for the next release
I am putting what i hope to see. 

 (1) HA CFS 
 (2) load leveling enhancement by laura 
 (3) CI and SSI IA64 port. 
 (4) devfs bug fix  to enable mount to work.

I bet this release is going to get  wide attention :)
 

I would also like to bring dlm under /usr/src/linux/cluster directory.
That makes it a core part of SSI. IBM's DLM team  seems to be not
working any more on DLM. Either they think it is stable or ??. Any how
brining DLM as sub part of SSI need considerable modification to DLM.I
am not sure whether it worth doing  This also involve  moving the DLM
user level libraries to cluster tools and removing dlmdu ( Or make it 
just to load DLM and then exit ). Once we make DLM as a part of SSI then
i guess one can use it without fear :).

Once we are with it next step would be to make opengfs to work with DLM.

any comments ? 
  

-aneesh