Would this be simlilar to something like Sprite ?

Scott Burns

-----Original Message-----
From:	Andy Sporner [SMTP:asporner@yahoo.com]
Sent:	Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:30 PM
To:	tech-kern@netbsd.org
Subject:	PID's etc..   (please excuse possible duplications of this)..

Hi, 

I am working on a clustering initiative that allows
for processes to be 
swapped from one machine to another.  The idea is for
load balancing 
processes in a NUMA like approach.  

What I had thought was to bury the cluster ID in the
high order byte of 
the process ID so that whenever a system call was made
any such byte 
greater than 0 would be proxied to the appropriate
machine. 

I would accept suggestions on this.   What would break
as a result of 
doing this? What were the historical reasons for
this,? 

Thanks! 




Andy 


  

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