Hi Michael,
thank you for the elaborate contribution to the road-map discussion.
I'm very happy about your reflections, particularly about learning that
the idea of supplementing your custom remote shell to Sculpt - which we
sketched out together at the Hack'n'Hike - worked out so well.
Your continued success and enthusiasm while using Genode in your domain
of research (NUMA, data center, many CPUs) actually surprises me quite a
bit because these use cases weren't considered at the design time of the
system. Your independent validation of our architectural choices is
reassuring.
It is great to read that you consider upstreaming some gold nuggets of
your work, like using your allocator in the libc. That would address a
long-standing limitation and has thereby the potential to eliminate
cproc's need to maintain a jemalloc version of the libc for the sole use
of Chromium. Also with our ambition of running Genode's SDK on Genode,
the performance of the libc allocator becomes increasingly important. So
the timing for such an improvement couldn't be any better.
> Above all, I am more than ever convinced that Genode’s architecture
> combined with the concept of microkernels provides a better foundation
> for today’s cloud infrastructure than Linux or Windows can provide
On the one hand, I find this sentiment flattering, on technical grounds.
On the other hand, I feel completely lost about how we (Genode, Genode
Labs, our community) may enter such realms. Infrastructure providers are
usually huge organizations, presumably with their in-house
developed/customized hypervisor stacks. I trust your technical
judgement. But lacking personal relations with cloud infrastructure
providers, this world remains distant and intangible to me. I wonder, do
you see any actionable steps that would lead us towards this alien world?
In contrast, what you write about building bridges by the porting of
typical server applications sounds very tangible. So you are coming
aboard the Goa train? That would be very cool!
Thanks again for sharing many topics worth looking forward to in 2026.
See you at FOSDEM!
Cheers
Norman
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Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske
Genode Labs
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