On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Chris Turner
wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>>
>> Partitioning is already
>> desireable for the current 48-core monster and I'd like to have
>> some sort of DragonFly host & guest solution that runs at full
>> performance on the bare HW without virtuali
:How would this be different than jail(8)?
:
:not understanding the 'without virtualization' part -
:I know some form of HW virt a-la kvm has been discussed a few times -
:
:do you mean like segmenting the 'machine' or somesuch?
Jail has no ability to segment kernel resources. It is really n
Matthew Dillon wrote:
Partitioning is already
desireable for the current 48-core monster and I'd like to have
some sort of DragonFly host & guest solution that runs at full
performance on the bare HW without virtualization.
How would this be different than jail(8)?
not understa
:Just out of curiosity, are there any plans for supporting
:machines with 64 cores or even more?
:
:For example, the Sun Fire X4800 (quite common in larger data
:centers) supports eight Xeon 7500 packages which have eight
:cores plus hyperthreading, which gives a 128-way SMP system.
:Solaris, Linu
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> I also expect to have a fine-grained VM solution at least for standard
> VM faults by the next release, hopefully sooner. It appears to be the
> biggest bottleneck on the monster 48-core test box now.
Just out of curiosity, are there any plans for supporting
mach
Here's hoping everyone has an MPSAFE New Year! And I'm hoping one of these
48-core monsters shows up under my Christmas tree.
Tim
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> The random utility seg-fault (usually cc1) on x86-64 appears to have
> finally been fixed. It turned
The random utility seg-fault (usually cc1) on x86-64 appears to have
finally been fixed. It turned out to be a vm_page race in the pageout
demon when it cycles pages onto the free page list.
This clears the way for running the system with the remaining global
tokens set to MPSAFE m
